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TortoiseSVN problem with Windows 7

Tobias — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:11:31 +0000

I noticed that using Windows 7 Tortoise SVN client often exits with an error message when trying to update/checkout files from the repository. The SVN checkout fails in that case. (And the system will perform a disk check at the next reboot)

This is caused by a bug in Windows 7 oplock file handling. Details can be found here.
Basically the error happens when another program tries to get a lock on the file while SVN is still doing the checkout – this can be Windows Indexer, Google Desktop, Backup Software, etc..

Microsoft released a hotfix for the issue – which should be included in Windows 7 SP1.
(Note that this hotfix replaces the previous KB 982927 hotfix the article above is linking to – and which doesn’t exist anymore)

tobiasbischof.de moved

Tobias — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:02:45 +0000

and hopefully you didn’t notice..

This website together with other projects and services have been moved to a new server which provides more storage and performance.

Enjoy!

DocCrawler 1.2.0 released

Tobias — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:09:38 +0000

Today I released DocCrawler version 1.2.0. The update mainly addresses a problem that occurs when DocCrawler hits files you have no permission to read to. This is now handled.
Besides that the output got more detailed and formatted nicer – oh, and you might notice that there is also some performance improvement. A lot of code-cleanup and optimization has been done..

Go, get it at the DocCrawler Project page

DocCrawler 1.1.5 released

Tobias — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:44:07 +0000

Finally I found the time to give the DocCrawler a space on this website. Although the tool is very simple it proved to be very useful to a lot of people in the past.

The DocCrawler is a small program that can scan a given directory (recursively) for new/modified or deleted files (since last scan). It is also possible to exlude one or more sub-directories inside that directory.

For more infos and a download link go straight to the DocCrawler page.

Never say never

Tobias — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:31:09 +0000

Well, not long ago I thought there would be no more posts into this blog since Twitter made it obsolete. Turns out (as you can see) that I was wrong.
Although personal updates will not appear here anymore I will use this space to announce new projects or to give updates on continuing ones.
Everything is changing so fast these days – even my own opinion

This is the end..

Tobias — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:01:42 +0000

.. of my personal web blog. Well, back in the days when this blog first started it was like a must-have for techies.

For me this blog was always much more about creating the blog than creating the content. So over the years it went from plain HTML over a php web-interface over blogger.com to a wordpress installation on my own server.Â Wordpress is great! I love it! But it’s so.. finished. Nothing to do for me: new theme? Install it right from within the config page. Display flickr picture? Go, get the plugin.

So, the blog entries which have been available before at www.tobiasbischof.de found a new home in the blog section of the main site. But there is more to come:Â All my various publications will instead find a new common home here. Although it might take some time.. If you subscribe to the RSS feed above you can keep track of the changes.

Btw: I am now used to fit my thoughts into 140 characters – so if you are interested follow me on twitter using the link to the right.