title: VC2008 compiler errors opening sbr files (C2418 C1903 C2471)
body: <p>EDIT:  See my answer below for the hotfix.</p>
  
  <p>ORIGINAL QUESTION:</p>
  
  <p>In setting up for our boat-programming adventure I have to set up source control and fix project files for a team to use them.  (the project was previously only being worked on by one person who took shortcuts with setting up the project includes, etc)</p>
  
  <p>I am fixing those SLN and Proj files.  When trying to do a build on an external USB drive (I have not tried it on the primary hard drive) I am getting odd errors (lots of them for various files):</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>fatal error C1083: Cannot open
    compiler generated file:
    '.\Debug\.sbr': Permission
    denied</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>These files are referenced in the vcproj file with relative paths in double quotes:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>RelativePath="..\..\Source\.cpp"</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I get the same errors form within a sln file in the IDE or if I call msbuild with the sln file.</p>
  
  <p>The files are kind of "shared" for a few sln files (projects).</p>
  
  <p>The person who originally created the SLN files is not known for being a wizard at configuring MSDev or making things work for teams.  </p>
  
  <p>Is this an issue with the way the source files are referenced?  Any suggestions on how to fix these?</p>
  
  <p>This URL does not seem to have helpful information:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/et4zwx34.aspx" rel="noreferrer">Fatal Error C1083 on MSDN</a></p>
  
  <p>Note - there were/are still hardcoded paths in the proj file, but i don;t see them for these files.  They were mostly for the include and lib dirs.  I think I removed them all.</p>
  
  <p>I also get these errors:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>..\..\Source\.cpp : error C2471:
    cannot update program database '\debug\vc90.pdb'</p>
    
    <p>..\..\Source\.cpp(336) : fatal
    error C1903: unable to recover from
    previous error(s); stopping
    compilation</p>
    
    <p>..\..\Source\.cpp(336) : error
    C2418: cannot delete browser file:
    .\Debug\.sbr</p>
  </blockquote>