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tortoisesvn
Jan
Jan

Reputation: 310

TortoiseSVN missing overlays in win8

I've recently installed a fresh win8 copy. After installing tortoiseSVN, it does recognize the folders as being under version control (the menu items are there), but no overlays on the icons. I Checked the registry settings as described here: TortoiseSVN icons not showing up under Windows 7 But the first 9 entries are all for tortoiseSVN and there are 4 others, so no problems there. What could be the problem?

Upvotes: 15

Views: 12427

Answers (6)

trey
trey

Reputation: 81

Go to regedit. Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers. Add space before folders, example: "1TortoiseNormal" -> " 1TortoiseNormal". Restart computer. Works for me.

Upvotes: 8

Tousif
Tousif

Reputation: 327

Go to TortoiseSVN > settings > Icon Overlays > Status cache changed from default to shell.

If the drive A, B or network is used check that drivew

Upvotes: 7

BadHorsie
BadHorsie

Reputation: 14554

In my case, the problem was that I was working on a network drive. By default, Tortoise doesn't show icons on network drives.

To enable the icons on other types of drive, right-click in Windows Explorer and go to:

TortoiseSVN --> Icon Overlays --> Drive Types

This may also solve the problem in other cases, where other drives are in use and not showing icons for you.

Upvotes: 1

user2746672
user2746672

Reputation: 21

Modifying the registry, tsvn clean up etc did not help anything.

Solved it by killing the process 'TortoiseSVN status cache' in task manager. Icons reappeared one by one after that.

In TSVN settings I've set the Status Cache to default (was None initially), but not sure this had anything to do with it. Also restarted explorer.exe to be sure.

I had an older/non-compatible version (1.6) of TSVN installed before updating to latest (1.8.8). This could have been part of the problem.

Upvotes: 0

AFract
AFract

Reputation: 9680

Please try this :

Sometimes you just have to restart Windows (if not already done).

You could also have to do a "Cleanup" (right click, Tortoise SVN shell entry) of your working copy, and to check "Refresh shell overlays" in the window.

Also, please review "Icon overlays" tab of Tortoise settings (right click, Tortoise SVN shell entry, Settings) settings of your tortoise SVN, especially if your working copy is (for example) on amovible or network drive.

Upvotes: 1

hagem
hagem

Reputation: 189

you have to do an svn actualization (in my case a fully checkout). just restart the explorer (or computer) after configure the registry did not show the overlay icons in my case

Upvotes: 0

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