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Re: Can't open file / can't create directory

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-10-03 20:49:12 CEST

Dr. Werner Popken wrote:

> I'm new to svn and TortoiseSVN. I maintain a Linux server and a
> Windows XP box at my office. I successfully installed repositories for
> several projects, imported and checked out without problems,
> proceeding from smaller to bigger projects.
>
> Now I imported my most important and biggest project with some 50.000
> files and nearly three GB size. It started normally, but stopped with
> an error message. So I repeated the whole process only to learn that I
> had another error message which looked pretty much like the first one.
>
> So I had a closer look at it:
>
> Can't open file 'L:\svn\db\transactions\14-1.txn\...':
> Das Verzeichnis oder die Datei kann nicht erstellt werden.
>
> In English, the error should read like
>
> The directory or the file can't be created
>
> The next step was to create the directory 14-1.txn manually, but to no
> avail; the system didn't accept this, but rather tried to create
> another one:
>
> Can't open file 'L:\svn\db\transactions\14-2.txn\node._a7v.0props':
> Das Verzeichnis oder die Datei kann nicht erstellt werden.
>
> Added: 13243
>
> Now I'm stuck. What can I do? What is the problem here? The system was
> trying to create another one in a line of jpg-files, nothing special.

The drive letter L indicates that this isn't a local harddrive. Which
means you have to check what filesystem is used on that drive. For
example, FAT and FAT32 have certain limitations on how many files can be
created in a directory, the size of files (no files over 2GB size), ...

Stefan

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