Strange svn checkout error

Question

Has anyone had this unusual(recurring) experience before? I'm trying to check out the project from svn repository and I get this error :

Checkout error; The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
svn: Can't move 'C:\workspace\project.1267011912396.svn\tmp\entries' to 'C:\workspace\project.1267011912396.svn\entries': The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

I previously tried it multiple times and it just checked out the project but now I've done it like 15 times and get the same error, what can I do ?

Answer 1

This is a known bug in Windows 7, slated to be fixed in SP 1.

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

Answer 2

Create a backup of the whole directory structure (just in case you make more damage) and try running svn cleanup.