TortoiseSVN how do you Disable/Enable TSVNCache.exe via Command Line?

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I'm trying to disable (and enable) TSVNCache in a BAT Script, is it possible? or do I need to kill it? Thanks.

Sometimes optimizing it is what you are looking for: http://www.nivas.hr/blog/2011/09/27/speed-up-tortoisesvn-cache-process-tsvncache-exe-and-lower-your-disk-io-activity/ — carla, Dec 11 '15 at 13:15

score 31 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 23 '16 at 13:33

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In a Windows Explorer Window, right-click on any file, then go to TortioseSVN->Settings->Icon Overlays->Status Cache and set it to None.

tsvncache.exe will immediately exit and not run again.

edited Mar 23 '16 at 13:33

Dorian Daumiller

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answered Oct 09 '15 at 18:04

Bryan Legend

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That was correct in the past, but it no longer seems to work (I just did this and I still have 2 TSVNCache.exe) – Timores Jun 30 '16 at 12:18
@Timores That might be other user sessions running on the computer. – Bryan Legend Oct 06 '20 at 21:50

score 14 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 08 '12 at 13:38

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It seems your problem is to reduce Disk I/O. If you really need to use command line for reduce priority, I recommend you use PrcView: http://www.teamcti.com/pview/prcview.htm

If command line use is not mandatory, try to disable cache. In TortoiseSVN Settings, under Icon Overlays, set your Status cache to either Shell or None.

answered Nov 08 '12 at 13:38

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`It seems your problem is to reduce Disk I/O.` Where did you get that? They didn’t say anything about it being about disk I/O. In my case, I want to turn it off because I don’t use TSVN frequently enough to justify having an extraneous process running all the time; nothing at all to do with disk I/O. – Synetech Mar 20 '14 at 19:58
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In my case, I had enormous swapping (thus, disk I/O) with TSVNCache working. – Leonel Sanches da Silva Mar 20 '14 at 20:00
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And you're not the only one, googling `disable tsvncache` brings up a few pages with excessive disk I/O as well, but that is not the only reason to want to disable it, and the OP said nothing about it. That’s why I questioned your unfounded conclusion. That said, your suggestion of `Icon Overlays → Status Cache → None` should work to disable it no matter what the issue is. `:-)` (I have yet to see the process start in the past few hours, so hopefully I won’t have to kill it every now and then.) – Synetech Mar 21 '14 at 00:48

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 17 '13 at 12:40

Write a batch script with this line. You will need to run the batch script with elevated (administrator) permissions

taskkill /f /t /im tsvncache.exe

To start it from the command line, another batch file

"C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\Bin\TSVNCache.exe"

I'd keep the quotes, around the command because of the space between "Program" and "Files".

TortoiseSVN how do you Disable/Enable TSVNCache.exe via Command Line?

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