Problem trying to relocate WC to new repository

Question

I have several working copies that were checked out of old repositories.
The old repositories are now combined into a new repository, therefore the repository name and the locations inside the new repository have changed.
Now I want to relocate these working copies to their new locations into the new repository.

When doing a Relocate with TortoiseSVN, I get a warning:

It seems you are trying to relocate your working copy to a different path inside the same repository.
From: https://old-repository/oldpath/folder
To: https://new-repository/newpath/folder
A relocate is only needed if the path to a repository has changed.
Changing to a different path inside a repository is done by a switch operation.

But it's not a different path inside the same repository. It really is a newly created repository with a different path / name.
When I ingore the warning and continue with the Relocate, I get an error:

The repository at 'https://new-repository/newpath/folder' has uuid 'd3b83275-bf16-aa42-9467-f8a402003233', but the WC has '30e22be1-af51-d84d-ad8f-d4e8545a4735'

Where is my mistake?

Answer 1

You can not do relocate to a new repository, you need to delete your working copy and do a clean checkout. Relocate can only be used if a repository has been moved unchanged to a new server or the server has got a new name.

Answer 2

If you really wanted to force what you're attempting to do, you could use the command:
svnadmin setuuid

to set the new repoistory to the same GUID as the old.

That would take care of the uuid error, and enable you to try again the svn switch.
(with or without the --relocate; I can't tell from your descriiption exactly how you've rearranged the paths inside the repository)