Problem with deleteing files

All,

 We've had a couple of odd things crop up.
I've tried to delete a file, and perform a commit.

there's a bit of history around this, so I'll explain..
once upon a time, there was a branch with a directory structure.
When doing a merge and re-branch some kind user forgot to drop their locks.
Anyway, after the branch, the file was subsequently deleted.

Now if I try and remove this old directory I get an error, saying I can't
because the file is currently locked by another user, even though the file
is no longer there.
I get this ;-

---------------------------------------------------
Error commit failed
User paul does now own lock on path
'/monkey/myproject/branches/development/documentation/spec.doc'
(currently locked by idiotuser2)
---------------------------------------------------

I can't 'get' or 'steal' the locks because, well there's nothing there to
get or steal!
I've tried creating a file with the same name, commiting, 'dropping the
locks, and trying to delete again, but I get the same error.

we're using tortoise SVN on the clients and the server is using SVN version
1.2.3

Can anyone offer any advice.

Paul

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Received on Tue Mar 14 15:31:23 2006