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How to fix "containing working copy admin area is missing" in SVN?

Asked 2009-09-08T13:36:31.027
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I deleted manually a directory I just added, offline, in my repository. I can't restore the directory.

Any attempt to do an update or a commit will fail with: 

"blabla/.svn" containing working copy admin area is missing.

I understand why, but is there anyway to fix this.

I don't want to checkout the entire repo and add my changes to it manually, it would take hours.

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We use maven and svn. It was an mistaken checkin of target directory to SVN that cause this error. Removing that fixed everything, if this hint helps anyone.

answered 2010-09-06T00:29:51.593
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Didn't understand much from your posts. My solution is

  1. Cut the problematic folder and copy to some location.
  2. Do Get Solution From Subversion into another working directory (just new one).
  3. Add your saved folder to the new working copy and add it As Existing Project (if it's project as in my case).
  4. Commit;
answered 2011-03-12T00:49:47.893

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