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Re: Icon overlays and windows XP64 professional

From: Stefan Fuhrmann <stefanfuhrmann_at_alice-dsl.de>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:34:18 +0200

Bill Greene wrote:

> I have
>
> TortoiseSVN 1.6.3, Build 16613 - 64 Bit , 2009/06/20 09:28:19
>
> installed on an XP64 SP2 machine. Tortoise appears to work
> correctly but I have no icon overlays in windows explorer at
> all. It is not clear from the FAQ or other posts whether it
> is, in fact, possible to make this work. There appears to
> be a large amount of mis-information dealing with this topic.
>
> A recent post dealing with this issue on Vista 64 said:
>
> "64-bit TSVN will only provide icon overlays to 64-bit apps. If you
> want them to work on 32-bit apps you have to install the 32-bit
> version as well."
>
> Not knowing whether windows explorer is 32-bit or 64-bit, I tried
> installing TSVN 32-bit. This completely killed TSVN. I had to uninstall
> both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions and then reinstall 64-bit TSVN to
> get it working again-- with no icon overlays. Not helpful.

XP64 explorer is a 64-bit app (unless you seriously tweaked
your system to use the 32-bit variant).

> Can someone please tell me for certain whether it is possible to make
> TSVN work on XP64 with icon overlays in windows explorer? And, if so,
> how to do this?

Just did the following (XP64 SP2):

* deinstall TSVN, reboot
  -> no overlays, no context menu
* install TSVN 1.6.3-x64, reboot
  -> overlays, context menu in explorer
* install TSVN 1.6.3-win32, reboot
  -> overlays, context menu in 32-bit apps, too

The only issue I had was a probably corrupted TSVNCache file.
As that obviously gets deleted after reading, I wasn't able
to backup it for further forensics.

Symptom:
No overlays *within* the top-level folder of a working copy.

Solution:
* delete folder %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\TSVNCache
* kill TSVNCache.exe process

-- Stefan^2.

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