SVN commands does not appear in context menu

Question

I've just downloaded and installed SVN Tortoise, but no commands appear on the menu. How is that possible?

Solution 1

Here is how I got around the problem:

On a fresh Windows 7 64-bit OS, I had some 32 bit applications plus the 64-bit totoisesvn application installed.

No icons in shell popupmenu!

To solve it I:

• uninstalled the 32 bit application that also used the menu,
• uninstalled the 64 bit svn
• used the regedit to manually remove any leftovers in the ShellIconoverlayIdentifyer hive
• rebooted
• and then reinstalling svn 64 bit svn,
• and then the 32-bit program.

Conclusion: Install the 64-bit apps before the 32-bit applications.

Solution 2

If you miss your overlay icons, the regular 'SVN Update' and 'SVN Commit' commands, but instead have a 'SVN Upgrade working copy' command, you should click on it. The reason it appears is that TortoiseSVN has been upgraded and the working copy format has changed. This must from 1.7+ be upgraded manually. This will bring your commands and overlay-icons back.

Solution 3

I had exactly the same problem on my Windows 7 system. Absolutely nothing in the context menu suggesting any presence of Tortoise SVN. I did all the installs, re-installs, repairs, reboots, etc, etc, suggested above.

What finally fixed it for me was installing the 64 bit version.

Solution 4

I experienced the problem of 'no context menu' after upgrading from 1.5 to 1.6 version. After first re-instal I had a new problem: 'no tortoise icons'. I re-installed again tortoise 1.6.16 build 21511.

After reboot everything works properly. I have a win-32bit machine under XP.

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Comments

[Matt Cruikshank]

This fixed me, just now. Installed new version, repaired, rebooted - nothing else worked. Thank you!

[Daniel de Zwaan]

Same here, 'SVN upgrade working copy' needs to be run after upgrading Tortoise

[Tom Swifty]

Nice, the 64 bit edition is definitely required when running 64bit Windows 8+.