On Aug 24, 2015, at 11:12 AM, Niemann, Hartmut wrote: > I am using the command line client of the latest 1.8 tortoise SVN on windows > 7 to change the depth > of a working copy. The subdirectory ACS64-A8 contains only an svn:external. > > Extending depth to include that said external works flawlessly. > > But when I remove it, I get two warnings and an error (Zugriff verweigert is > Access denied): > > D:\PRJ\RDA\Main\Images>svn update --set-depth empty ACS64-A8 > Updating 'ACS64-A8': > Removed external 'ACS64-A8\images': Can't check path > 'D:\PRJ\RDA\Main\Images\ACS64-A8\images\.svn': Zugriff verweigert > svn: warning: W200000: Error handling externals definition for > 'ACS64-A8\images': > svn: warning: W720005: Can't check path > 'D:\PRJ\RDA\Main\Images\ACS64-A8\images\.svn': Zugriff verweigert > Updated to revision 3872. > svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals definitions > > but strange enough: the directory images is gone. > > So I get an error for an action that looks like it succeeded finally. > > Could the virus scanner delay a delete action, so that svn *thinks* it didn’t > work? > > (svn, version 1.8.14 (r1692801) compiled Aug 2 2015, 17:48:46 on > x86-microsoft-windows)
Virus scanners definitely can interfere with Subversion. Have you tried turning your virus scanner off, or telling it not to scan the directory containing your working copy(ies)?
