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I am trying to checkout into the virtualbox shared folder with svn 1.7 in ubuntu 12.04 running as a guest on a windows 7 host. I had read that this error was a 1.6 problem, and updated - but am still receiving the error:

svn: E000071: Can't move '/mnt/hostShare/code/www/.svn/tmp/svn-hsOG5X' to '/mnt/hostShare/code/www/trunk/statement.aspx?d=201108': Protocol error

I found this blog post about the same error in a mac environment, but am finding that changing the folder/file permissions does nothing.

vim .svn/entires just has the number 12 - does this need to be changed?

Thank you for any assistance!

(just another reason for why I prefer git...)

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  • I have also tried creating a symlink to the repo (which I can checkout into other folders.) but am running into the read-only file system error. Which, is not fixed by issuing VBoxManage setextradata ubuntu VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/hostShare 1
    – Alex Waters
    Dec 18, 2012 at 20:00
  • Now when I try to create a symlink it throws 'protocol error' instead of read-only file system.
    – Alex Waters
    Dec 18, 2012 at 20:00

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There is a question mark in the filename to which you are trying to move the file.
That is not a legal character in a file on NTFS file-systems.

Generally I found the shared folder function of VirtualBox unreliable and after trying multiple times I always went with a standard Windows network share - which might also not help in your case though.

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