How to solve this problem of subversion

Question

I have been using TortoiseSVN for a 2-3 months to control my subversion. Today when I tried to commit files to a repository it showed me a strange message like this:

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When I went to the menu and selected Cleanup command it showed me this new message box:

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I have tried to release lock it says that there is nothing to unlock.
What happened with my subversion repository? Has anybody met with this problem before? How to solve it?
A lot of thanks.

Solution 1

Delete the working directory (or backup it, if you already did changes). Then, get new a copy from the server (and merge your changes from the backup copy with tool like WinMerge)

Solution 2

Asked and answered on stackoverflow.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/127932/svn-working-copy-xxx-locked-and-cleanup-failed

Comments

[Joey]

Your repository is probably fine, it's your working copy that has problems.

[Michel Ayres]

Broke images. Title doesn't help to understand the question.