How to fix “containing working copy admin area is missing” in SVN?

Question

I deleted manually a directory I just added, offline, in my repository. I can\'t restore the directory.

Any attempt to do an update or a commit will fail with:

Answer 1

I had this problem when I was trying to add a directory to svn. I solved it by going into repo browser. Right clicking in the left window, choosing add folder and adding the directory directly in the repo browser.

I then deleted the directory locally (after backup of course) did a clean up and svn update and everything was working again.

Answer 2

fwiw, I had a similar situation and used svn --force delete __dir__. That solved the issue for me. Then i continued working with my working copy as normal.

Answer 3

Just in case anyone wants yet another solution:

1. Check in your new folder as "foldername2"
2. Go into Tortise SVN repo browser
3. Rename "foldername2" to "foldername"
4. In windows explorer do an update

Hope it helps someone.

-Ev