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Uncontrol a Component

You may need to remove control from a component, but if you simply delete the component from the primary server's server_default.ver file, the associated files delete, as well. Instead, you can define an uncontrol block in the server_default.ver file, which lets you delete the component without also deleting the associated files on the clients. These statements take the following form:

! uncontrol component-name

This statement indicates that this component no longer has control. Clients connecting to this server need to remove this component from their version file, but also need to remove the files associated with this component. You can remove the uncontrol block after all the clients have successfully connected at least once.

Note: You should update all clients with the most recent version control client. Older version control clients can ignore uncontrolled components.