SVN commands does not appear in context menu

I've just downloaded and installed SVN Tortoise, but no commands appear on the menu. How is that possible?

Did you restart your machine?

Update:

I ran into the same problem myself! It happened when I installed version 1.6 over 1.5. When I restarted my machine, I found Tortoise entries in Start Menu but not via context menu. When I clicked on "Settings" an error message appeared. So, I uninstalled 1.6 and installed it anew. Now it's working again! Yes, available through context menu. I believe it's a bug.

I was having the same issue on Windows 7 64-bit. I reinstalled a number of times, but still could not see the context overlays in Explorer. So I looked at the changelogs of TortoiseSVN and saw a recommendation to do a Repair install. That solved my problem.

Aside from first rebooting...

Are you running 64-bit or 32-bit Windows? Tortoise runs as a shell extension so if your Windows OS is 64-bit and you installed the 32-bit version of Tortoise, you won't see the context menus.

On a side note. If you use a 32-bit tool like Total Commander in a 64-bit OS, and you want context menu extensions in both Explorer and Total Commander, you will actually have to install both the 32-bit and 64-bit version of Tortoise.

I had the problem with my total commander and uninstall/reinstall several times, but the real "problem" is tortoise settings. From http://shalom.craimer.org/info/tech-journal/articles/653/The-context-menu-and-icons-for-TortoiseSVN-dont-appear-in-Total-Commander-but-the-do-appear-in-Windows-Explorer.-Why.html

• "Repair" in the TortoiseSVN's installer
• Restart
• In the TortoiseSVN settings (right-click in Explorer and select "Settings..." under "TortoiseSVN" in the context menu) -> "Icon Overlays" uncheck the checkbox labelled "Show overlays and context menus only in explorer."

Repair install fixed the problem.

There is a long list of reasons why TSVN isnt working in your case. Your best bet is to have a look at the TortoiseSVN support list, failing that post a message to the list - they are a frendly bunch.

Ouch, looks like I cant post links yet - go to google-groups and look for TortoiseSVN, there are two lists tortoisesvn-dev and tortoisesvn, dont ask on the dev list you will be kindly asked to ask on the 'user' list

Incidentally I had this same problem on Windows Vista 64 bit. Had to do the reinstall / reboot thing twice. Installer was TortoiseSVN-1.6.12.20536-x64-svn-1.6.15.msi.

Whatever I did - install/uninstall/reinstall/repair - nothing worked. Only after installing WANDisco Subversion Tortoise also started working.

Here is how I got around the problem:

On a fresh Windows 7 64-bit OS, I had some 32 bit applications plus the 64-bit totoisesvn application installed.

No icons in shell popupmenu!

To solve it I:

• uninstalled the 32 bit application that also used the menu,
• uninstalled the 64 bit svn
• used the regedit to manually remove any leftovers in the ShellIconoverlayIdentifyer hive
• rebooted
• and then reinstalling svn 64 bit svn,
• and then the 32-bit program.

Success! The svn menu items appeared (the 32 bit are still not visible though).

Conclusion: Install the 64-bit apps before the 32-bit applications.

I had TortoiseSVN in Explorer context menu, but it was missed from UnrealCommander context menu.

I had to remove all entries of TortoiseSVN from registry manualy. Because repair installation had no effect for me.

But then after re-installing TortoiseSVN I had success.

I had exactly the same problem on my Windows 7 system. Absolutely nothing in the context menu suggesting any presence of Tortoise SVN. I did all the installs, re-installs, repairs, reboots, etc, etc, suggested above.

What finally fixed it for me was installing the 64 bit version.

If you miss your overlay icons, the regular 'SVN Update' and 'SVN Commit' commands, but instead have a 'SVN Upgrade working copy' command, you should click on it. The reason it appears is that TortoiseSVN has been upgraded and the working copy format has changed. This must from 1.7+ be upgraded manually. This will bring your commands and overlay-icons back.

Similarly to what others above have suggested, i encountered this problem and the root cause was 32 v 64 bit. I installed WANDisco Subversion - and in the process auto installed TortoiseSVN as well.

The version it installed was 32 bit however, and i had to uninstall that and reinstall the 64 bit version of TortoiseSVN separately.

Using 32 bit Win XP I uninstalled rebooted then reinstalled and rebooted again and it fixed the problem

It can be fixed by repairing TortoiseSVN and immediate re-booting the OS. Make sure that your are using the correct version for your OS ( 32bit || 64 bit).

I faced the same problem with Window Server 2003 R2 when I upgraded to TortoiseSVN to version TortoiseSVN-1.6.12.20536-win32-svn-1.6.15. Now it's solved.

I experienced the problem of 'no context menu' after upgrading from 1.5 to 1.6 version. After first re-instal I had a new problem: 'no tortoise icons'. I re-installed again tortoise 1.6.16 build 21511.

After reboot everything works properly. I have a win-32bit machine under XP.

You might be checked "Hide Menus for unversioned path" in Context Menu inside SVN settings. Uncheck the box and check or Press Shift + right click so that the context menu will appear.

I was just chasing a red herring, maybe someone else experienced the same thing:

I thought the context menu wasn't appearing any more for moving versioned files. Turns out I was trying to move the files to a folder that I hadn't added to subversion yet. As soon as I added the folder in Tortoise, the context menu options re-appeared. Doh!

1. Install
2. restart machine
3. repair install

It worked for me