Working copy locked error in tortoise svn while committing

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I m using Tortoise SVN to update and commit changes to the repository in the server whenever I make changes to my working copy  But from a few days I m not able to commit the changes and I get the following error whenever I try to commit   Working copy  C  Program Files EasyPHP www project php  locked   C  Program Files EasyPHP www project  is already locked    I ve tried to unlock the folder by right clicking on it and selecting Tortoise SVN   Release lock  it says     There s nothing to unlock  No file has a lock in this working copy   What might be the problem

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I ran into this issue as well  For some I would like to point out that if it is locked CHECK WITH YOUR TEAM  Someone on the team might have some things locked because they are working on it  this allows developers to do work on things without others coming in and trying to work on the same content as well   If that is the case  releasing the lock and then updating has the potential to lose data for the developer who locked it   With that in mind my concern was that the  clean up  option would possibly change my working copy or remove information from the Repo level of Subversion  That is not the case  The answer worked for me  Mine became locked when I clicked cancel during the middle of an update  I ended up pulling some of our branches and I did not need the stuff so I hit cancel  My working copy became locked  I could not find any documents that came up as  locked  when I used the command  release lock   This left me puzzled and upon some quick reading  and this thread  I attempted the  clean up  command  After a clean up it resolved my issue and nothing was locked anymore   source  http   tortoisesvn net docs nightly TortoiseSVN en tsvn-dug-locking html

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Windows Solution   https   sourceforge net projects win32svn   1 Download it  then add it to system path   2 Go to work directory execute  svn clean   and  svn update  in cmd

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Right click on folder  TortoiseSVN- Check for modifications  Click on the Check repository button  Break lock on all files returned

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If this  https   stackoverflow com a 11764922 3045875  does not help  Check if another SVN tool is interfering and close the tool  We just struggled a couple of hours at merging using TortoiseSVN and had dozens of such lock errors  Eventually we figured that Matlabs SVN integration is interfering and after closing it all worked out

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I managed to lock myself out of a file in svn - don t know how - but when I tried  re -getting the lock  Tortoise was showing the  Get Lock  option for the file   it complained that  already had the lock   I tried deleting the file and committing the directory change - same result   I tried CleanUp  including refreshing the overlay   but that failed too   The solution was to go into the Tortoise repo-browser  find the file and use the break lock function

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There are multiple meanings of  lock  in SVN and some of these answers that talk about  break lock  or a teammate holding a lock are not using the relevant meaning for the original question  This question is dealing with  working copy locks   i e  they are entirely local to the working copy on your computer and have nothing to do with you or teammates holding a lock check-out on a file   The accepted answer by MicroEyes is referring to the correct usage and is your best option when this happens   If a cleanup doesn t work you may need to check out a fresh working copy of the project  If you have any modified  un-commited files you will need to copy them over to the fresh working copy so you don t lose your changes   See this page in the Tortoise SVN docs for a description of the three usages of  lock   http   tortoisesvn net docs nightly TortoiseSVN en tsvn-dug-locking html  Excerpt  emphasis added       The Three Meanings of    Lock         In this section  and almost everywhere in this book  the words    lock      and    locking    describe a mechanism for mutual exclusion between users   to avoid clashing commits  Unfortunately  there are two other sorts of      lock    with which Subversion  and therefore this book  sometimes needs   to be concerned       The second is working copy locks  used internally by Subversion to   prevent clashes between multiple Subversion clients operating on the   same working copy  Usually you get these locks whenever a command like   update commit     is interrupted due to an error  These locks can be   removed by running the cleanup command on the working copy  as   described in the section called    Cleanup

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No problem    try this    Go to top level SVN folder  Right click on folder  that has your svn files    TortoiseSVN   CleanUp   This will surely solve your problem  I did this lots of time        Note  Make sure  Break locks  option is selected in the Cleanup dialog

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The accepted answer didn t work for me  To fix that issue  I had to right-click on the file that was locked  select repo-browser  This opened a popup with the files as they are on the SVN server  I then right-clicked on the locked file and selected break lock    When I closed the repository browser  back on explorer I could finally commit

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I had tried various things  including  Clean Up  on lower subdirectories   Finally  I tried updating the top level folder   Nothing   Then I read the  Clean up top level  tip   I tried that   The clean up part succeeded  but the lock remained   My solution was to go back to the top level  clean up  then clean up each red     folder I could drill down to   After all was  Cleaned up   the update worked perfectly   The  break lock  tip looks good  too  with the exception that someone on your team might have a legitimate lock on things

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I had no idea what file was having the lock so what I did to get out of this issue was     Went to the highest level folder  Click clean-up and also ticked from the cleaning-up methods --  Break locks   This worked for me

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