When I go to update, I keep getting a locking error on a folder that no longer exists. My first thought is to go use svn-cleanup to fix whatever has broken. Instead, cleanup throws an error also:
Problem running log
svn: In directory "C:\xxxxx\xxx\"
svn: Error rocessing command "append" in "C:\xxxxx\xxx\"
svn: Missing "xyz" attribute in C:\xxxxx\xxx\"
Any ideas to clean this mess up besides re-downloading the entire project again?
I just found a link from the tortisesvn forum. It basically said to pull the project again. I'm open to know another way to fix it if anyone has a better answer.
Could you delete the parent folder that contains the missing folder, or is that too big?
After deleting the parent folder then do another svn update. This has worked for me in the past for your same problem. Luckily for me my parent folder that contained the problem folder was small.
I would try pulling the sources again and doing a directory wide diff using WinMerge. This should allow you to reapply the changes you made to any files and correctly remove folders using svn remove.
We use TortoiseSVN, and for some reason this happens quite frequently (3-4X per year). The quickest solution for us is to just delete the folder and check it out again. Easy peasy.
When this happens, I usually delete the offending directory (not the whole project) and then run svn update to pull down the missing bits.
If that doesn't work, then I pull the whole thing down again.