Folder is locked and I can t unlock it

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When I m trying to update or commit code from a project it s telling me that the folder is locked  When I try to  release lock  it says that there s nothing to unlock in this working space    What does that mean  Why I can t update  commit or even clean up the project

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I had this issue and i have done below steps to resolve it:

Go to parent folder instead of child folder
Select SVN cleanup
Click on OK.

Do this step on parent folder instead of child folder!

It worked for me !

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This was the first time I had this issue  I even tried to restart PC  without effect  This solves my problem   Solution for me    Right Click on Project Working Directory  Navigate TortoiseSVN  Navigate To Clean Up  Leave all default options  and check Break Locks Click OK   This works for me  I was able to commit changes

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I had this problem where I couldn t unlock a file from the client side  I decided to go to the sever side which was much simpler   On SVN Server   Locate locks   svnadmin lslocks  root of repo   in my case it was var www svn  name of Company     You can add a specific path to this by svnadmin lslocks  root of repo  path to file    Remove lock   svnadmin rmlocks  root of repo    path to file        That s it

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To anyone still having this issue  Error  Working copy   DIR   locked    I have your solution   I found that when one of TortoiseSVN windows crash  it leaves a TSVNCache exe that still has a few handles to your working copy and that is causing the Lock issues you are seeing  and also prevents Clean Up from doing it s job    So to resolve this   Either  1a  Use Process Explorer or similar to delete the handles owned by TSVNCache exe  1b    Or even easier  just use Task Manager to kill TSVNCache exe  Then  2  Right click -  TortoiseSVN -  Clean up   Only  Clean up working copy status  needs to be checked   From there  happy updating committing   You can reproduce Lock behavior by doing SVN Update and then quickly killing it s TortoiseProc exe process before Update finishes

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Clean up  check all check box    This work for me

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To unlock a file in your working copy from command prompt that is currently locked by another user  use --force option     svn unlock --force tree jpg

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I was able to resolve this issue on my machine by renaming folders to make the folder path smaller

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In addition to David M s answer  while doing cleanup -  check  break locks  option  This will ensure release of locks  Then do svn update  This worked for me

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If the file was locked by yourself same svn account   you can follow these steps   Right click on the locked file or folder  and select TortoiseSVN- Get lock      and check on     Steal the locks  at the bottom left corner of the dialog  click  OK   If it complete successfully  that s ok  When you right click on the file again  you can see  TortoiseSVN- Release lock     click to unlock

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I encountered this problem after these operations    get lock on folder modify files remove files and update folders --  new files downloaded try to commit or release lock   I finally resolved the problem by forcing the lock again   TortoiseSVN --  Get Lock --  check  steal lock  then commit or release lock

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Solution     Right Click on Project Working Directory  Navigate TortoiseSVN  Navigate To Clean Up  Select Clean up working copy status make checked mark  Click OK Repeat Step 1 and 2 then navigate to release Lock  Click OK Your project lock get opened

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I had this happen after having Tortoise get corrupted and crash while trying to update folders   I ended up re-installing Tortoise  but the ghost lock was still present   From there I had to delete the folder and do a new checkout   Obviously I got really lucky that I didn t have any new changes to commit at the time   Anyhow  not great news  and if anyone has a better solution I d love to hear it myself   Even using  Break Lock  ie unlock with the force option did not change anything

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Right click on your Subversion working directory folder  and select TortoiseSVN- Clean Up from the Context Menu  This will recurse it s way through your working directory and cleanup any incomplete actions  remove the local locks  which is different from using Subversion locking of a file in the repository which lets everyone know about the lock    If that doesn t work  see if you can find the names of the files that were changed  but not yet committed  save them  and redo the checkout

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I was moving a folder up one level and into another folder  My mistake was doing the move from within the parent folder   Bad example   pwd - gt  C  Repo ParentDir  svn move   DirtoCopy    AnotherDir   SVN needs to update the parent directory with the deleted folders info  You have to do it from the common root of the source and destination folders or use full paths   Good example   svn move C  Repo ParentDir DirtoCopy C  Repo NewLocation

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I research a lot on this issue but no solution fix my problem until I try this   My repo folder is shared with a Windows xp virtual machine  so I execute the clean up from the VM and then execute SVN UPDATE from the host   It worked for me   Greetings from Costa Rica

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To unlock a blocked document  1  Right click -  Lock 2  Check the  Steal the locks  check box 2  Release the lock

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Using svn command line to unlock the local folders  just use svn cleanup   Before     svn commit -m  fixing  1234       svn st      svn cleanup  After     svn st      svn commit -m  fixing  1234

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