64-bit TortoiseSVN on Windows 7 says "file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" then runs chkdsk [closed]

Question

I'm using 64-bit TortoiseSVN on a 64-bit Windows 7 Professional. Every so often a checkout or update will fail with an error message like the following.

Error: Can't move 
Error: '[...]\\.svn\tmp\entries' 
Error: to 
Error: '[...]\\.svn\entries': 
Error: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. 

Then CHKDSK runs after reboot, which makes me nervous.

Why might this be happening or how I can avoid it?

Answer 1

This is a known bug in Window 7, slated to be fixed in SP 1:

http://subversion.wandisco.com/blogs/windows-7-bogus-errorfilecorrupt-error-.html

There is now a hotfix available:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982927/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2498472/en-us

Answer 2

I had the same problem (using MS Security Essentials). I 'think' it might have something to do with the AV programs monitoring program activity. It seems like that MS SE 'thinks' a malicious script is running and it stops it.

I tried disabling 'Monitor file and program activity on your computer' in 'Real-time protection' and it seemed to solve the problem.

From there, I did some other testing and found that I could leave the option on and still have successful checkouts by configuring 'Excluded Processes' to include "C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoiseProc.exe" "C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TSVNCache.exe"

Either method seems to have worked for me so far. (I've been able to do large check-outs consistently since I've changed the options.) I prefer the 2nd, so that MS SE still monitors for potential malicious activity anyway.

Answer 3

It's all the doing of the Windows Indexing Service. See SVN: TortoiseSVN Can’t Move .. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable (Windows 7).

Answer 4

I had the same problem, but with 32-bit TortoiseSVN (1.6.6 on Win7 x64).

Disabling/changing antivirus did not help. Neither did downgrading to TortoiseSVN 1.5.10 (that only had the consequence of not being able to read the checked out repository directories any more.

What helped was configuring the Windows Indexing Service to not index my SVN/source code directories. I found that tip here: http://schleichermann.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/svn-tortoisesvn-cant-move-the-file-or-directory-is-corrupted-and-unreadable-windows-7/

Answer 5

Here is a solution I found to solve the problem which worked like a treat. It's an excerpt from SVN: TortoiseSVN Can’t Move .. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable (Windows 7).

1. Click the start menu button, then click in the text box to begin a search.
2. Type in “windows index”
3. Click on “Indexing Options” that should come up in the search (this can also be found in the Control Panel, if you change the View by to Large or Small icons. I am not sure what it’s categorized under, though)
4. When the Indexing Options box comes up, click on the Modify button. This will pop up an Indexed Locations dialog, where you should see a list of some “locations”, with your hard drive(s) being in the list.
5. Expand the desired hard drive, down to the root folder of the files you’re using SVN with, and make sure the box is unchecked. It was checked for me here, even though the folder option was as I described in my last post. Also note that the hard drive will most likely be collapsed, and will have its box unchecked, even though once you expand it, you may find checked boxes.

For example, my projects are located in my C:\Users\Name\Documents\VS2008\Projects\ folder and each of the folders in here were checked in the Indexed Locations dialog. After unchecking the appropriate folders here, which is where my working copy of SVN’d projects are, everything seems to be working the way I expect it to.

I hope this helps someone still suffering from this crippling problem.

Answer 6

The article "Getting ERROR_FILE_CORRUPT when moving a file... Result: Chkdsk at reboot (Reproducable and confirmed)" explains why it is happening, and the example program therein shows exactly how you can get this error on Windows 7. I just hope Microsoft finds a way to resolve this issue.

[Update] This issue has been fixed in ServicePack 1 for Windows 7 and ServicePack 1 for Windows Server 2008R2.

Answer 7

This is problem 'The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.' is coming in Windows 7 or Vista because YOU HAVE TURNED ON THE INDEXING SERVICE.

To get solved either Turn of the indexing service for your svn directory or its parent directory or Temporarily turn off the indexing: Here's HOW? 1)Go to Control Panel - Indexing Options 2) Click On Pause. This will pause indexing for next 15 minutes by default. 3) Now Perform Commit. You are aloud to commit for next 15 mins

Answer 8

We were experiencing the same issue. If you have a virus scanner installed, it appears that it could be causing the problem. Try to disable scanning before a large checkout.

http://groups.google.com/group/tortoisesvn/browse_thread/thread/4d8bdcea4fd14fce?pli=1

For us, we were only experiencing the issue with very large updates/checkouts. Average or small updates were working flawlessly. I don't know why that's the case, but I can totally see a virus-scanner-related issue being inconsistent in such a manner.

Answer 9

I have the same issue with McAfee 8.7i. To workaround it, i've to disable Access Protection as i can't seem to figure how to add an exception for TortoiseSVN.

Answer 10

I was getting the exact same error, but also another error when Updating ("Cannot find the file specified").

I am running Windows 7 x64 and have McAfee installed.

I had renamed a file from "Map" to "map" and committed it. The commit worked fine but Checking Out failed with the "directory is corrupt" error.

In my case it was fixed by going into Repo-Browser and deleting the file "map". So I still had the original un-renamed file ("Map") in version control. From then the checkout worked fine.

Answer 11

I was running Panda Cloud Anti-Virus and received this error -- as noted above, when disabled, the error went away completely.

Answer 12

Not sure if you're still having this issue, but I found a solution that wasn't coming up in my Google searches for me. I posted specific directions here on my blog. Hope this helps.

Answer 13

I have a directory - C:\Users\\workspace\ - where I checkout projects.

What I have found is that if I go to the indexing options in Windows 7, and click 'Modify', a new popup appears. From this popup I can see my C drive with and expand and collapse arrow. I have simply unchecked my workspace directory. Presumably this should disable indexing on this directory.

I am still getting the errors, but I thought this might be a helpful piece of info towards the solution. NB I get the errors with indexing paused anyway, so there may be another factor.

Answer 14

You can recover from this problem using "cleanup" in Tortoise SVN. Find the directory(ies) that are giving you problems and descend into them. You will see files badged as unversioned. If you run the cleanup command on the containing directory, it will temporarily fix the problem.

I'm also going to turn off the indexing mishegas, toute-suite. Thanks for that!