tortoisehg workbench: convert extension is disabled

Question

I installed TortoiseHG 2.9.1 on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine. I'm trying to enable the 'convert' extension as described here:

How to migrate/convert from SVN to Mercurial (hg) on windows

With TortoiseHG 2.0 this has been made much simpler: Start the TortoiseHG Workbench from the Start menu. Select File --> Settings. Select Extensions from the list. Check the 'convert' checkbox and click OK. That's it! No need to try to generate the config file anymore and search it in the file system. – bgever Mar 11 at 7:56

However that extension (and also inotify) are disabled so I cannot check the checkbox! All other extensions can be enabled in this dialog. Any idea why?

Answer 1

Make sure you are on the "global settings" tab of the Extensions dialog. Note convert is no longer disabled. inotify is still disabled, but pointing at it displays "inotify is not supported on this platform" and I'm using Windows.