I tried renaming this directory, but couldn't. I get this message: The item $/DotNetZip/Help/Zip Tools/ZipTool1.png is locked for check-out by (null) in workspace (null). Apparently this is due to a known bug in TFS, it gets into a strange state. The fix is to run a query to remove some entries in the TFS database. On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 I sent a request to the only codeplex guy I could find, via the "contact user" form on the codeplex site, asking that he fix this for me. So far no response. What I did was just create a new directory, copy the content, and create new content. I don't care about this content, I just want it to go away.