svn move failed. Now move leads to error: Path already exists

Question

I tried to move folder A, which is inside my working copy to another folder B inside the same working copy. The move failed because a file was used by a popular scientific calculation program.

Now it's not possible anymore to move folder A to folder B, because of the error Path '...' already exists.

Update and Clean-up didn't help.

When I try to commit the folder B, the folder A which should have been moved and all its files are marked missing.

Possible solutions:

Use the Repo browser to move folder A to folder B.
Commit and mark the missing folder A and its files.
Create folder named A in B and put it to ignore list. Commit.
Last resort: checkout everything to a new folder and try again.

How can I move Folder A to folder B, now that this error exists?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:33:28Z

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I reverted the change according to this answer and it worked fine afterwards.

Including that missing file as suggested by Simon F didn't work.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:33

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Simon F · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-24 21:44:15Z

This just happened to me. I Committed the folder and checked/included that "missing" file. (Tortoise)SVN "Deleted" the "missing" file (from the place where it was never really moved to) and then after that it was fine. I SVN-moved my file to its proper home.

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