TortoiseSVN: missing overlay icons
June 29th, 2007
TortoiseSVN is a nice feature-rich wrapper for subversion, that offers a visual file-status representation and all subversion commands one click away. Unfortunately, it is only available for Windows...
Today, I decided to move my subversion-controlled projects from vmware's virtual disk to a local Linux shared directory, so I could access them from both Windows and Ubuntu. I copied the folders but the overlay icons did not show up. At first, I thought that maybe the .svn directories failed to copy, but that was not it.
The real reason was that I don't access my shared folders from \\.host\Shared Folders, instead I use a mapped drive letter, which I think is a convenient shortcut to avoid typing long network paths. TortoiseSVN, by default, decorates the files and folders that reside in local hard drives, but not the ones found in network drives.
To tell TortoiseSVN to display overlay icons for network drives, open the Windows Explorer's context menu and choose TortoiseSVN → Settings → Overlay Icons. In the Drive Types section make sure that you have checked Network drives and apply changes. You should be able to see the overlay icons now.
Today, I decided to move my subversion-controlled projects from vmware's virtual disk to a local Linux shared directory, so I could access them from both Windows and Ubuntu. I copied the folders but the overlay icons did not show up. At first, I thought that maybe the .svn directories failed to copy, but that was not it.
The real reason was that I don't access my shared folders from \\.host\Shared Folders, instead I use a mapped drive letter, which I think is a convenient shortcut to avoid typing long network paths. TortoiseSVN, by default, decorates the files and folders that reside in local hard drives, but not the ones found in network drives.
To tell TortoiseSVN to display overlay icons for network drives, open the Windows Explorer's context menu and choose TortoiseSVN → Settings → Overlay Icons. In the Drive Types section make sure that you have checked Network drives and apply changes. You should be able to see the overlay icons now.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:13 am Hi Giannis, thanks for this post, it made my day. These days, it's faster to type a few keywords in Google then spend 2 mins searching through program options :-)
April 26th, 2010 at 8:26 pm I got the latest version of TortoiseSVN 1.6.8, Build 19260 - 32 Bit , 2010/04/16 20:20:11
and all my overlay icons have disappeared PLUS the icons in the repo browser context menus shown just their right edges.
I tried your suggestion above but it did not work.
May 13th, 2010 at 6:49 pm i think something broke in TortoiseSVN 1.6.8 19260. issue reproduced on 2 separate computers exactly as Rick has described.
May 13th, 2010 at 7:02 pm i rescind my statement. apparently "This is a known issue with some upgrades, and in particular it has been reported for 1.6.8. If this happens to you, try doing a repair install (and reboot of course)."
quote found in: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/faq.html
in my case repair installed restored the icons.