Question

I’m trying to delete several working copy directories, but I get an Access Denied on all the SVN files, running as admin or normal user. I’ve killed the Tortoise cache process, and cannot figure what is wrong.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Download Microsoft’s Process Explorer and see what processes have the file-handles open.

Once you’ve downloaded Process Explorer run it (no install required), and

• Select Find -> Find Handle or DLL
• Enter a filename you can’t delete.

It will list the processes with handles to that file. Kill the process and you should be ok.

Note that this is a general Windows answer, not a TortoiseSVN specific answer.