Moved everything to my new computer. Installed tortoise svn. How can I relink again all the working copy to the repository?

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I bought a new laptop. I copied all the working copies from my old laptop to my new one. I installed tortoise svn (under windows 7). Now my working copy clearly have no tortoise icon on the folder. But I have the .svn hidden folder, however the context menu (when I right click) is different, I cannot commit or else. Only few options. How can I get the same configuration I had in the old laptop, with the Tortoise icon on the folder and where by right clicking I could get the extended menu allowing me to commit? The answer to a similar (but different since there .svn folder was gone) question I asked here Working copy got mysteriously unlinked from repository. How to relink it again and commit changes? is too cumbersome to be used multiple times in all the working copies.

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post a picture of the new context menu. My guess is, that you have installed a newer TSVN version compared to yur old computer and you need to upgrade the working copies to a higher version. - magicandre1981

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  1. Check settings and configuration of TSVN (Icon overlays enabled, drive of your WCes is not in excluded-drives list)
  2. Check functionality of TSVN per se: create local repo, checkout from it (even empty) to some-new-WC, check overlays presence
  3. The most possible version: Propreties of WC-folder - Subversion tab. Inspect URL of repository and it's accessibility from new workplace: it can be file:///-based repository, not existing now, or remote host, not reachable (for some reason)
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I just needed to do right click and choose "SVN upgrade the working copy". It is outside the tortoiseSVN menu so I did not initially notice it.