Re: FW: update command is removing files

Petra Price wrote:
>
> I have used Tortoise CVS for the past two years with no problems. For
> the past month, however, the update command has been problematic.
> Sometimes when I update a directory,  I get the following message and
> the files in the directory are gone.
>
>  
>
> “In C:\...: "C:\Program Files\TortoiseCVS\cvs.exe" -q -x update -d -P
>
> CVSROOT=:sspi:…:2401/files/ConfiguredData
>
>  
>
> ? Thumbs.db
>
> cvs server: <file name> is no longer in the repository
>
> cvs server: cannot open directory . for empty check
>
>  
>
> Success, CVS operation completed”
>
>  
>
> No one has removed the files. Three of us use CVS, and this problem
> has happened on each of our machines on numerous occasions. I now copy
> the files I want to update to my desktop before updating in case they
> are removed. Interestingly, if I save a copy of the files, update, the
> files are removed, and then I copy the removed files back to the
> directory, I can add and commit them with no problems. The version
> number is even one greater than it was before the files were removed,
> and the complete history of each file is preserved.
>
Something has changed on your CVS server. The obvious candidate is
antivirus software.

-Torsten

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