Hello Shira, You emailed dev@ TortosieSVN mailing list dedicated to the discussion of TortoiseSVN development. That's why this is not the right place for asking user support. Use users@ list instead and read the Community page: https://tortoisesvn.net/community.html
I'm removing dev@ and adding @users. On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 11:24 PM, Shira Hammann <nosmalldre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm hoping folks may have some guidance on how to stop my repo from getting > corrupted by folder deletes. I guess that by "repo" you mean "working copy" (https://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-basics-svn.html#tsvn-basics-svn-workingcopy). Right? Do you store the working copy on local computer or on a network share? > > Since I started using tortoisesvn 3 months ago, my repo has twice been > corrupted so that I had to delete it and check out the code from scratch. > Both times, this has occurred when I attempted to delete a directory in the > repo. > > The first time, I just physically deleted the directory using FileExplorer. > One of my colleagues says he does this all the time and it works fine with > the same versions of svn and tortoisesvn that I'm using. I no longer remember > all the details of the errors I got, but I know that my repo ended up > corrupted and Clean up didn't work and I ended up having to get the repo > again. All those details are essential to provide advise or suggestions. Please, specify the exact and complete wordings of the errors you receive and a brief summary of actions you did prior the error occured. Note that the state of a working copy that requires a clean up, does not mean that the working copy is corrupted or anything. A clean up might be required in case your working copy is in inconsistent state. This could happen, for example, in case you cancel SVN operation that's in progress. Read https://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-cleanup.html and http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.tour.cleanup.html > > This time, I right clicked the directory, and chose TortoiseSVN -> Delete. > Just prior to doing that, I had gone to the SVN Commit page from my project > root, and it looked fine. However, after deleting a directory a couple of > levels down, the SVN Commit page no longer found any pending changes. That > was true whether I tried from the root or from a subdirectory that didn't > contain the deleted directory. I then tried to do a Clean up, again trying > from both of the same locations, and it failed saying "Cleanup failed to > process the following path:", then the path of the directory I'm trying to > clean, then "Can't open directory", then the path of the directory I had > deleted, then "Access is denied." I'm totally confused. Why do you run `svn delete`? What was the output of `svn status --verbose`? What made you think that you should run `svn delete` command? BTW, "Access is denied" is still just "Access is denied". You should double-check that your Windows / AD user account has full Read Write access to the location of your working copies. There is a chance that the errors occur due to lack of permissions. What about checking out the working copies to a new location where you sure have full access permissions? > > At this point I have no idea how to fix the issue, so I'm getting a brand new > copy of the repo. However, this is a frustrating thing to have happen every > time I need to delete a directory and I'm hoping folks may have run into the > same and be able to suggest a better option. I would suggest reading the documentation http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.tour.html & https://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/index.html Sorry, but I'm not sure what kind of issue you are trying to describe. Some error messages and a reproduction script could help. -- With best regards, Pavel Lyalyakin VisualSVN Team
