Access denied on commit in TortoiseSVN

Ok, issue one!

We recently had one of the developers leave and I have been trying to get all his projects submitted to source control by logging in to his old machine using his username and password. We're using TortoiseSVN and the error I was getting was:

'\\ServerName\Repositories\FolderName\db\transactions\2670-1.txn': Access is Denied

I found various things about turning off antivirus software or stopping it from scanning that folder but in this case it turned out that the guy who runs the Exchange server had removed the developer from an exchange group which had access to the repositories share. I gave the user permissions to the share and voila!

Easy one to start with!

Intro

With thirteen years in IT and the internet/web so far I have often thought of the huge resource I would have created by now if I had blogged every single issue I had faced over the years. From tiny syntax lookups and javascript mashups back in the day when I was coding static web pages to SQL integrations with COBOL; they would all be there when I or anyone else needed them!

Pity!

Oh well, better late than never, here it is! Starting now I will try to document as many of these  issues, solutions and other interesting (to some) little tit bits!