Subversion stuck due to “previous operation has not finished”?

Question

If I try to update my subversion repo, it says I must run cleanup. If I run cleanup, it says a file is missing. (I deleted a MASSIVE directory of files that failed to commit

Answer 1

I initially got this problem trying to check in with TortoiseSVN. Initially, both, TortoiseSVN clean up and console svn cleanup both failed with similar messages as the original poster.

But my solution, (found out accidentally) was just to wait a few minutes. I am thinking TSVNCache was holding on to some of those files at the time of check in.