Unable to retrieve folder information from the server

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Stimp

I am running Visual Studio 2003 and while opening ANY of my ASP.NET 1.1
projects I get the following error appearing in an alert box:

"Unable to retrieve folder information from the server"

None of the files for the project open in the solution explorer.

Has anyone ever experienced this, or know of a solution?

Thanks,
Peter
 
thanks, but deleting VSWebCache exacerbated the problem when I tried it
before (I found that link earlier)

The original problem was that I got the error on ONE project.

Then I deleted VSWebCache (which incidentally has been recreated fine by
VS since)

Then I couldn't open any projects?!?
Click to expand...

I finally found the solution.

I have to uninstall Tortoise SVN ... doh!
 
You don't have to. I had the same problem and it took me a full day to figure it out. As of version 1.4.8 (maybe earlier I don't know, but I used this particular version) right click in a random folder
-> TortoiseSVN -> Settings. Now in the "general" section you can check the option "use "_svn" instead of ".svn" directories". Doing this magically solved my problem. This will only apply to the next projects that you will check out, not to the existing ones. I.e.: It will not convert the existing ".svn" folders to "_svn".
When you click on OK it asks you to reboot the system. Don't ask me why, just do it :P.

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The solution is perfect. It was happening due to the .svn extension. Changed the option from the setting of Tortoise SVN. Got it working. Thanks a ton.
 
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