TortoiseSVN lost my author name

Question

I use TortoiseSVN x64 on my laptop with Windows 8.1 x64, accessing a remote server. I was given a username and password to access the repository. After a while using the TortoiseSVN client, I got tired of entering my username and password all the time and checked the "save authentication" checkbox. It seemed like normal.

However, the other day I realized that when I look at the log (TortoiseSVN → Show log), the author is empty in all my commits. The commit message I wrote is shown, but no author. I am not allowed to edit it later to enter my username, I get an error.

I tried another client on another computer, where I did not save my data, and then it worked fine, my username appeared as the author in my message.

I am trying to delete saved credentials from my laptop, but to no avail. I tried to delete the AppData / Roaming / Subversion / auth folder (which was empty anyway), but nothing happens, and as soon as I interact with the repo again, the folder is recreated, as before.

I tried to go to TortoiseSVN → Settings → Saved data, and the Clear button on the Authentication data is disabled there.

I tried to uninstall TortoiseSVN, restart the computer, install it again and check the entire repository again (in another place, but on the same hard drive).

Any suggestions?

EDIT: Has this been a problem for 2 years now. I tried the cleanup cache in APPDATA, but that did not help. In any case, the cache is empty. Due to other problems with my laptop, I cleaned up the hard drives and installed Windows again this week last week, but as soon as I installed TortoiseSVN and checked my first repo, I returned to the same problem. How can he remember this if the hard drive is clean?

Answer 1

Try to remove Tortoise SVN, and then manually remove all registry keys from the registry and then install a new copy. I would recommend TortoiseSVN_ (64bit) _v1.7.7.msi, which is by far the most stable version.