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What is the ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers in the windows registry meant to look like if tortise SVN overlays are working correctly?


The answer here:

TortoiseSVN icons not showing up under Windows 7

Suggests that you might need to modify your windows registry to make the overlay icons display correctly.

I've opened that path in regedit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers

And the following displays.

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What is meant to be here if tortiseSVN or similar programs have their overlay icons displaying correctly?


Solution

  • You should have 9 Tortoise related subdirectories below ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers as seen here:

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    I suggest you re-install Tortoise.