SVN icon overlays not showing properly

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I m testing SVN  After the configuration  I can add commit the files successfully    However  I can t see the status icons on the files and folders  Can anybody tell me why

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I met this problem with TortoiseGit and TortoiseSVN. DropBox renamed its registry entry with more white spaces as prefix " " than I did for Tortoise.

Tortoise directly can open the registry editor by TortoiseGit > Settings > Icon Overlays > Overlay Handlers there click Start registry editor and rename entries so that the first in alphabetical order to be what you want.

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This is not a problem  like Avada Kedavra said  actually  this is documented here  in the section  Icon Overlay Settings   and I also show bellow  You can read that  and choose the one you like most      Since it takes quite a while to fetch the status of a working copy    TortoiseSVN uses a cache to store the status so the explorer doesn t   get hogged too much when showing the overlays  You can choose which   type of cache TortoiseSVN should use according to your system and   working copy size here       Default      Caches all status information in a separate process    TSVNCache exe   That process watches all drives for changes and   fetches the status again if files inside a working copy get modified    The process runs with the least possible priority so other programs   don t get hogged because of it  That also means that the status   information is not real time but it can take a few seconds for the   overlays to change       Advantage  the overlays show the status recursively  i e  if a file   deep inside a working copy is modified  all folders up to the working   copy root will also show the modified overlay  And since the process   can send notifications to the shell  the overlays on the left tree   view usually change too       Disadvantage  the process runs constantly  even if you re not working   on your projects  It also uses around 10-50 MB of RAM depending on   number and size of your working copies       Shell      Caching is done directly inside the shell extension dll  but   only for the currently visible folder  Each time you navigate to   another folder  the status information is fetched again       Advantage  needs only very little memory  around 1 MB of RAM  and can   show the status in real time       Disadvantage  Since only one folder is cached  the overlays don t show   the status recursively  For big working copies  it can take more time   to show a folder in explorer than with the default cache  Also the   mime-type column is not available       None      With this setting  the TortoiseSVN does not fetch the status at   all in Explorer  Because of that  files don t get an overlay and   folders only get a  normal  overlay if they re versioned  No other   overlays are shown  and no extra columns are available either       Advantage  uses absolutely no additional memory and does not slow down   the Explorer at all while browsing       Disadvantage  Status information of files and folders is not shown in   Explorer  To see if your working copies are modified  you have to use   the    Check for modifications    dialog

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I encountered same problem when I upgraded from Windows 7 to 10  Eventually I have to re-install SVN and reboot the system and it worked  However  I have to manually upgrade each SVN directory to new SVN 1 8 format  it showed up automatically on explorer on right click to upgrade the directory to latest version   Hope this helps

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They showed up after installing Ankh SVN

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This is  unfortunately a quite common problem on Windows where the icons are either not updated or rather disappearing  I find it quite annoying  It usually is fixed by either refreshing the Windows folder  F5  or  by doing a SVN Clean up  Right click on the folder - gt   TortoiseSVN - gt  Clean up     Select Clean up working copy status  I have never been able to solve this permanently  this is only a work-around  Keeping TortoiseSVN on the latest version may or may not help  Note that the clean up will only clean up your local working copy  it wont do anything to the actual repository  Its a safe operation   Apparently this is not enough according to your comment  Do you have lots of other programs that are also using overlay icons  If so maybe you can find a solution in this thread  TortoiseSVN icons not showing up under Windows 7  The second most voted answer also deals with network drives etc  Its a good read   Also  have you rebooted your computer after the install  From the TortoiseSVN FAQ   You rebooted your PC of course after the installation  If you haven t please do so now  TortoiseSVN is a windows Explorer Shell extension and will be loaded together with Explorer      Otherwise  try doing a repair install  and reboot of course

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In my case all icons suddenly disappeared    Solution     Go To Task Manager and kill Explorer  In Task Manager File  New Task      Run       explorer   and all appeared again

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My overlays disappeared all of a sudden  or so I thought    I came across this article https   corengen wordpress com 2014 07 30 my-tortoisesvn-icon-overlays-have-disappeared  which points out that windows has 15 slots for overlay icons  4 are reserved for windows  which leaves 11 for other applications    Regardless of how many overlay keys are in the registry  Windows selects the first 11 in alphabetical order      When I upgraded Office  OneDrive added overlay icons -- prefixed with a lot of spaces -- pushing down Tortoise s overlays below the threshold   windows registry  Since I am not using OneDrive  the solution was to add a  z  to the OneDrive key names

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The problem I was having is that drop box was putting its overlays in at a higher priority than SVN   They both put spaces on the beginning of the entries to push them to the top of the list in      HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion    Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers    The following article explains this more fully and shows how to fix it   https   www garethjmsaunders co uk 2015 03 22 managing-overlay-icons-for-dropbox-and-tortoisesvn-and-tortoisegit   However as dropbox gets updated relativity frequently on my machine  and I rarely update Tortoise SVN I would suggest just appending spaces to the tortoise entries to push them up the list  otherwise you ll have to do all this again when a dropbox software update is installed

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First clear the temporary files in Windows system  then restart your system   Run    temp    delete all files

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Following are steps     Run    regedit    and locate   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion  Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers   rename the folders in order you want   trick use 01   02  as prefixes  terminate explorer exe from task manager and re-run explorer exe task    You will see that overlays are shown where you did not see them initially as per preferences given

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I found a simple solution  just open Settings of TortoiseSVN  and expand Icon Overlays  select Icon Set and change the icon set   The default icon set of mine is XP Style  and I change it to Win10 because Win10 is the OS I am currently using      Restart your computer and problem gets solved

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Tortoise SVN on Windows happens to lose sync quite often with the real file status  In that case try doing an svn cleanup   Another thing  it may also depend where your source files are located  different drive  network drive  etc  There s an option in Tortoise to allow icon overlay or not  on remote drives   Check this out in  TortoiseSVN   Settings   Icon Overlays   Drive types

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in my case  the tortoise icon not showing at all  I tried this and solved my problem     open registry HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers delete all folder OneDrive delete all folder SkyDrive    the point is to place all tortoise folder at top    open TaskManager and kill Explorer re run Explorer through TaskManager

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To fix this go to TortoiseSVN   settings   Icon Overlays   Status cache changed from default to shell   If the drive A or B is used check the Drive type as A and B

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In my case  Dropbox overlays were starting with a    quoted identifier  in the registry  I deleted all the   prefixes and restarted explorer exe    HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers   Edit  I installed Windows 10 and this solution didn t work for me  So I just went to the same registry location and deleted all Google and SkyDrive records and restarted explorer exe    Second edit  After installing TortoiseGit it fixed everything without any customisation

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