Where did these profiles in Visual Studio Team Explorer come from and how do I get rid of them?

Question

Where did these "profiles" in the team explorer come from and how do I get rid of them? In one of my projects there are files seemingly split across multiple of these, and I don't know what they are, how they got there, or how to get rid of them.

Answer 1

These are all the different work spaces that are created on your local machine. A workspaces is a local copy of your code base. Source

This tends to happen if you re-install or upgrade Visual Studio. At this point it is best if you do a cleanup, by deleting workspaces. However, be very very careful since there is a good chance that you will lose code that is not checked in.