How to fix Subversion lock error

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How do you fix the Subversion Subclipse error  Attempted to lock an already-locked dir    Googling shows people routinely encounter this error  and the only solution I ve seen posted is to run Subclipse s Team- Cleanup command  Unfortunately  I get this error when I run the Team- Cleanup command  Are there any other options

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Go to the metadata directory as below

your workspace>projectname>.metadata

inside this metada directory, there will be a lock file. Delete this lock file.

Restart eclipse and rebuild project. It worked for me !

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Old question  but none of the above solutions worked for me   What did work was to close eclipse  then using Tortoise  right click on the project in Windows Explorer and choose  TortoiseSVN  -   Clean up   then just use the default checkboxed items  Clean up working copy status  include externals   then hit OK   This cleaned up the folder  then I was able to update and commit files as normal

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We had the same repeating problem  It s a disaster  What can you do if cleanup and unlock does not help because there is no existing lock    Search the hidden  svn folder in your directory structure  It contains a wc db file which is an sql lite file  Open it with an sql client  e g  DBeaver  Add an sql lite connection to the dbeaver by selecting the wc db file  Open the WC LOCK table  You can see one or more rows that contains the URL which was mentioned in the phantom lock error window  Delete these rows from the table  Try to update your project from the repo  If you use more than 1 repo in 1 project  externals  another phantom lock may appear during the update  In this case repeat the process with that folder

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I tried recursively deleting all lock files  but that just resulted the error  Path is not a working copy   I ended up having to do Team- Disconnect and then Team- Share  Upon reconnect  it complained about existing  svn files  which it deleted  Now it seems to be working

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We don t have an external SVN server  I was working on a PC with Windows 7 Enterprise  and I was using Eclipse subversion plugin as an SVN client  The problem in my case occurred when the commit of a file took to much time due to network problem that forced me to restart my PC   After the restart I started getting this error  XXX file already locked   The solution was to install  TortoiseSVN   right click on the SVN project folder --  TortoiseSVN --  cleanup   I hope that this post would be a help to someone

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Refresh Cleanup did not work for me  What worked  1  File - gt  Switch workspace - choose a different workspace 2  afterwards switch back to the original workspace

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Error    Attempted to lock an already-locked dir svn  Working copy  C  work myproject workspaces HPDP  locked   Solution  Worked for me           Right-click on project-- gt Team-- gt Refresh Cleanup

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I spent hours looking for a solution to the  Attempted to lock an already-locked dir  error I was receiving in IBM RAD  Finally  I guessed to type   unlock  lt directory path gt   in the RAD console and    volia I could finally syncronize my files

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Subversion supports a command named  Cleanup   it is used to release the locks on a project

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I have faced same problem  I solved this by Right click on project --- Team----  Refresh cleanup

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I solved a similar problem  SVN client gave me an error    svn  E200002  Failed to create new lock    I tried everything including  Cleanup  and  Still Lock  but with no success  Then I solved the problem simply  I went to my svn server and deleted the locks folder   at  c  svn my repository locks   It turned out that there are broken files in it

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I solved this problem by doing these    Right click on your project  Click on Team Click Refresh Cleaup

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I get this too  I go to the directory  not in Eclipse  where the files are  go into the  svn dir and delete the file called lock    Flip back to Eclipse and continue   There is a similar question here Problems committing file to SVN repository

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I tried all suggestion from this thread but the only one that worked is    go to the folder on which the project locked folder is stored execute svn cleanup

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After the same problem with  phantom lock  the only solution was   1  Disconnect the Project Eclipse- Team- Disconnect  select option to delete  svn folder   2  Than  reconnect  Eclipse- Team- SVN- Share Project  Ignore the warning about better do an checkout  After this all worked fine   Cleanup and Restart was no solutions  also Scan Locks did not show anything

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use tortoise svn to cleanup with  break write locks  option checked

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svn help unlock  And find locker after all - lock isn t needed in most cases

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Just Right Click on Project    Click on Team Click Refresh Cleaup   this will remove all the current lock files created by SVN  hope this will help

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Using SVN 1 8  deleting lock file does not help  lock file does not exists    Refresh Cleanup did not solve either   What did solve   1  Backup your directory  just incase    2  Team    Disconnect  Choose to remove  svn files 3  Add it again to SVN    Note  In my case  error was due to loss of network connection during initial commit

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I had similar problem  Team- Refresh Cleanup Solved my problem

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