The directory name is invalid

The directory name is invalid 16 Dec 2007 14:10

So I ran into an annoying issue earlier - ran an svn update over our core repository and a few seconds later heard Tortoise screaming because it couldnt access one of the directories down the tree (inaccessible).

Drilling down on the tree I saw that I had a corrupt directory - bah. So I schedule a chkdsk and reboot. Chkdsk runs away and reports no errors. Eh? Oh well, continue on with the reboot and then go to dispose of the directory and refresh it from Subversion. Except that when I tried to delete (or access) the directory now I get the error "The directory name is invalid".

So what to do? Well after trying a few approaches I thought I would give Unlocker a try - running it reported no locks, but it offered to help anyway so I asked it to delete the directory and what do you know, it sorted it :)

Previously you may have (like me) only seen Unlocker used to remove locks on files etc, but its very interesting (and useful) that it can cater for these types of issues as well.

Nice!

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