Troubleshooting
Problem
This technote details why the error, cleartool: Error: Checked out version, but could not copy data to "makefile" in view: File exists, occurs when trying to checkout an element version in an IBM® Rational® ClearCase® view.
Symptom
Attempts to checkout an element version to a view reports warnings and fails with the following error:
% cleartool co -nc makefile
cleartool: Warning: Unable to rename "makefile" to "makefile.keep": Read-only file system.
cleartool: Error: Checked out version, but could not copy data to "makefile" in view: File exists.
Correct the condition, then uncheckout and re-checkout the element.
cleartool: Warning: Copied checked-out version data to "makefile.checkedout".
cleartool: Warning: Checked-out version is not selected by view.
Checked out "makefile" from version "/main/branch/0".
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Modified date:
15 January 2025
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