Problem deleting .svn directories on Windows XP

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Published on 2011-01-07T20:48:41Z Indexed on 2011/01/07 20:54 UTC
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I don't seem to have this problem on my home laptop with Windows XP, but then I don't do much work there.

On my work laptop, with Windows XP, I have a problem deleting directories when it has directories that contain .svn directories. When it does eventually work, I have the same issue emptying the Recycle bin. The pop-up window says "Cannot remove folder text-base: The directory is not empty" or prop-base or other folder under .svn

This continued to happen after I changed config of TortoiseSVN to stop the TSVN cache process from running and after a reboot of the system.

Multiple tries will eventually get it done. But it is a huge annoyance because there are other issues I'm trying to fix, so I'm hoping it is related.

'Connected Backup PC' also runs on the laptop and the real problem is that cygwin commands don't always work. So I keep thinking the dot files and dot directories have something to do with both problems and/or the backup or other process scanning the directories is doing it. But I've run out of ideas of what to try or how to identify the problem further.

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