VisualSVN "Unable to open ra_local to URL"

Question

I have a TortoiseSVN installation on my server (Windows Server 2003) and my development machine is Windows 7.

I successfully Commit and Update from Explorer (right click->SVN Commit/Update).

But when I try to Commit/Update (Repo browser or whatever) from VisualSVN, I get an error:

Unable to connect to a repository at URL
'file:///F:/SVNcode/trunks/Edition2012/FolderX'
Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
Unable to open repository
'file:///F:/SVNcode/trunks/Edition2012/FolderX'

Path: 'file:///F:/SVNcode/trunks/Edition2012'.(shown in Explorer and VisualSVN). Where "F" is a net unit to my server. This path works OK from Explorer.

I am now using VS2012, same results on VS2005.

VisualSVN v.3.0.6

Tortoise info:
TortoiseSVN 1.7.10, Build 23359 - 64 Bit , 2012/10/08 11:46:26
Subversion 1.7.7,
apr 1.4.6
apr-utils 1.3.12
neon 0.29.6
OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012
zlib 1.2.7

Thank you

Answer 1

The error you get means that you attempt to connect to a local repository via file:// protocol but URL you enter either points to nowhere or you lack access permissions to the directory. So something is either wrong with the URL or with your access permissions. Here are the general troubleshooting steps:

1. Make sure to use the same URL in VisualSVN as you use in TortoiseSVN,

2. Make sure that you run Visual Studio and TortoiseSVN under the same user account. Network folders are mapped on per-user basis so if you run Visual Studio under another account, the F:\ mapped network drive is unavailable. In fact, I guess that you run Visual Studio under Administrator and TortoiseSVN under some other user account.