title: I can connect to team foundation project, but can't load from source control because project folder doesn't exist
body: <p>So, I screwed up earlier. I was attempting to install reporting services into TFS (which for a single server required that I delete the existing TFS configuration and re-create it with reporting). I failed to note that I couldn't install reporting services with a client operating system though, so I'm back where I started on that count - sort of.</p>
  
  <p>Before I removed the configuration, I used the TFS Backup Power Tool (http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c255a1e4-04ba-4f68-8f4e-cd473d6b971f) to backup my projects (as I have regularly for quite a while), so I have a series of backups to pull from. However, I'm having difficulty restoring my project back to TFS.</p>
  
  <p>Originally, I configured TFS, ran the restore tool and put all the databases back in from the backups, but that didn't work because I couldn't view the collections in the TFS Admin Console  and thus couldn't access my projects.  Instead, I created a new collection in the TFS Admin Console, created a new Team Project in Visual Studio and tried to just copy the files from my old project into the new one.</p>
  
  <p>I can see my old team project in there, but if I attempt to load the solution from it, I get an error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>TF10175: The team project folder $/Stuff does not exist. Contact your
    Team Foundation Server administrator and ask that it be created.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>However, I can't find any particular way to create that folder without simply creating a new project, mapping it locally and then I'm without my files again until I re-copy them. Now, I can do that and don't otherwise have any ties to my old team project except that I also want all my work items from it into my new one.</p>
  
  <p>Here's my problem - I'd like to be able to restore everything back to how it was before this ill-conceived upgrade. I'd like to see my team project in TFS Source Control and load it as well as be able to access all my Work Items.</p>
  
  <p>Now, I can copy my entire project over to the new team project and I'm good on that front, but that doesn't give me my Work Items. I tried using the TFS Integration tool (http://tfsintegration.codeplex.com/) to copy the work items from one project to the other, but it is unable to see the old Team Project unless I have it connected in Visual Studio. And if it's open in VS, I can't do the operation because "The process cannot access the file because it's being used by another process."  When I close VS, my old team project disappears into source control and the Integration tool can no longer see it.</p>
  
  <p>Thus here seem to be my two options:</p>
  
  <p>1) Can anyone share some insight into how to load my old team project from source control (currently unbound, but when I bind it, I get the $/Stuff doesn't exist error) so I can access all the files + Work Items?</p>
  
  <p>or </p>
  
  <p>2) Can anyone share some insight into how I can move the Work Items from my old project to the new one? And I'm not interested in that method of using Excel to just get the basic information - I need all the links that are in there and those apparently don't map to Excel.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for any help you can provide!</p>