Re: Error on update - can't copy x to x.tmp.tmp

On 6/2/07, Philip TruelyUnknown <plt_lyris@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I had a tech writer add a large number of files to the repository (not sure
> exactly, probably 300 or more). He didn't report any problems doing the
> commit, but when we try to update now we get the following error:
>
> Error: Can't copy
> 'C:\xxx\yyy\_svn\tmp\text-base\createreport_links.htm.svn-base'
> to 'C:\xxx\yyy\_svn\tmp\createreport_links.htm.tmp.tmp':
> The system cannot find the file specified.
>
> I have upgraded to the newest Subversion version (1.4.3), cleaned, deleted
> the local files and re-updated, and I always get back to this error. Any
> idea what I can do to get around this?

Might you have 2 files in the same directory with the same name,
differing only in case?

Do you have an on-access virus scanner running, and can you disable it
or tell it to ignore .svn directories?

Can you check out a fresh working copy from the same URL?

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Received on Sun Jun 3 02:07:12 2007