Working copy XXX locked and cleanup failed in SVN

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Dan picture Dan · Sep 24, 2008 · Viewed 877.3k times · Source

I get this error when I do an svn update:

Working copy XXXXXXXX locked Please execute "Cleanup" command

When I run cleanup, I get

Cleanup failed to process the following paths: XXXXXXXX

How do I get out of this loop?

Answer

Chuck picture Chuck · Sep 24, 2008

One approach would be to:

  1. Copy edited items to another location.
  2. Delete the folder containing the problem path.
  3. Update the containing folder through Subversion.
  4. Copy your files back or merge changes as needed.
  5. Commit

Another option would be to delete the top level folder and check out again. Hopefully it doesn't come to that though.

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