Pottinger, Hardy J. wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to get rid of an old working copy, but Windows Explorer
> is reporting this, after about a minute wait:
>
> Error Deleting File or Folder
> Cannot delete HEADER~1.SVN: Cannot find the specified file.
> Make sure you specify the correct path and file name.
>
> This is on Windows XP Pro. And I have admin priv. on this computer.
>
> I'd like to start over with a fresh working copy (updating this working
> copy is failing, too), but I can't seem to get rid of this folder.
This looks like you have a very bad virus scanner running which
exclusively opens the files for scanning. If that happens, Subversion
can't access its own files anymore, closes those files but since the
virus scanner has the file locked, the file can't be cleanly closed and
stays therefore open, i.e. it stays locked.
You have to kill the explorer process to get rid of the lock (or just
reboot or logon/logoff).
And for the future: disable your virus scanner from scanning your
working copies. Or switch to a virus scanner which doesn't open files
exclusively (which is the most stupidest thing anyway).
Stefan
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Received on Tue Aug 31 11:30:12 2004