How to fix containing working copy admin area is missing in SVN

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I deleted manually a directory I just added  offline  in my repository  I can t restore the directory   Any attempt to do an update or a commit will fail with     blabla  svn  containing working copy admin area is missing    I understand why  but is there anyway to fix this   I don t want to checkout the entire repo and add my changes to it manually  it would take hours

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What I did to fix this was to delete the local copy of the folder under question and then do an svn update of the parent directly afterwards   Fixed it right up

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I came across this problem when replacing a third party API library with a newer version  and none of the solutions here really worked for me because I wanted to replace the SVN version with the local version   My solution was as follows   1  Move the offending folder to my home dir  delete it from SVN and commit   mv foldercausingproblem    svn --force delete foldercausingproblem svn commit --message  Temporary removing folder with old API   2  Put the folder back  add it to SVN and commit again   mv   foldercausingproblem    svn --force add   svn commit --message  Finally all working    Slightly irritating to have to commit twice  but it seems to have worked fine

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fwiw  I had a similar situation and used svn --force delete   dir    That solved the issue for me  Then i continued working with my working copy as normal

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I had this issue  Just move blabla to another location temporarily  tell svn to revert it  and then move it back  It is treated as a new addition  Simple

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Didn t understand much from your posts  My solution is   Cut the problematic folder and copy to some location  Do Get Solution From Subversion into another working directory  just new one   Add your saved folder to the new working copy and add it As Existing Project  if it s project as in my case   Commit

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For me  the same issue happened when I both    deleted  --force  a  map file added   map to svn ignore via svn propedit svn ignore     My solution was to    undo changes to the property commit changes to the files checkout a fresh copy of the repository  alas   change the property and commit

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According to this  http   www devcha com 2008 03 svn-directory-svn-containing-working html  Check-out the folder  blabla  to a different location and then copy its  svn folder back into the original  blabla

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The simplest that helped me   rm -rf  dir in question  svn up   If you have changes in the problematic dir  then this is not a good solution for you

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I tried svn rm --force  path to dir to no avail but ended up just running svn up and it fixed it for me

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Can you try to check out a new copy of the parent directory   Edit  To be bit more specific  I meant to suggest going up one level and deleting the containing directory  Then do a  svn update --set-depth infinity   to replace the directory

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The error  Directory  blah  svn  containing working copy admin area is missing  occurred when I attempted to add the directory to the repository  but did not have enough filesystem privileges to do so  The directory was not already in the repository  but it was claiming to be under version control after the failed add   Checking out a copy of the parent directory to another location  and replacing the  svn folder in the parent dir of the working copy allowed me to add and commit the new directory successfully  after fixing the file permissions  of course

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I had this error recently  It was caused by root owning a couple of files in the directory giving this error   After I changed the permissions everything worked as expected

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Just in case anyone wants yet another solution    Check in your new folder as  foldername2  Go into Tortise SVN repo browser Rename  foldername2  to  foldername   In windows explorer do an update   Hope it helps someone   -Ev

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I had the same problem  when I was trying to switch  C  superfolder   Error messages    Directory  C  superfolder subfolder  svn  containing working copy admin area is missing Please execute the  Cleanup  command     After trying to do a  cleanup   I got the following error     Cleanup failed to process the following paths   C  superfolder   C  superfolder subfolder   is not a working copy directory    Solution    Delete the folder   subfolder  Clean up the folder  superfolder  Try to switch again the folder  superfolder    this worked for me  Please let me know if it also works for you

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We use maven and svn  It was an mistaken checkin of target directory to SVN that cause this error  Removing that fixed everything  if this hint helps anyone

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I had this problem when I was trying to add a directory to svn  I solved it by going into repo browser  Right clicking in the left window  choosing add folder and adding the directory directly in the repo browser   I then deleted the directory locally  after backup of course  did a clean up and svn update and everything was working again

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I just did  svn revert  blabla  and it worked  the folder is back and I can svn delete it

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I added a directory to svn  then I accidentally deleted the  svn folder within    I used  svn delete --keep-local folderName   to fix my problem

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A common task I experienced was having to take one repo directory in staging and copy it to another repo - both under SVN and both called the same name   The way that worked for me was the following   svn --force delete PROBLEMATIC-DIR svn export  https   OLD REPO-A  new-repo-A  svn add new-repo-A svn commit new-repo-A

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I had this error recently  when the files were excluded by settings in my SVN globals  The error was especially nasty since I also deleted the files directly from the repository - and this meant that the above solutions were refusing wouldn t work  In this case  manually deleting the  svn directory from the directory that I removed from SVN allowed me to run an update which then allowed me to commit

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First of all checkout the project into your system in a folder  Then remove the  svn folder from conflict project and copy the  svn folder from new checkout folder and paste into your working copy folder  Then problem is solved

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