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Re: Minor Issue: Multiple Directory Deletes Requires Clean Operation

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:28:47 +0200

Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> At times, I find \Debug and \Release under SVN control. I will select
> both directories, and (from the context menu): Tortoise Delete. The
> first will succeed. the second [kind of] fails. The second will still
> have the SVN icon associated. So I perform another delete and receive
> a message box to perform a clean action.

What is the error message you get?
If there is a file inside the folder you want to delete that is open by
another application, then of course the delete will fail. And
unfortunately Subversion has some problems when files are locked that
way, which then requires a cleanup.

Stefan

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