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In Windows Vista I installed JBoss. When I then logged in as another user for some reason all the JBoss directories had no permissions, i.e. their permissions were 000. I ignored this and went ahead and copied one of the server directories. Then I tried to go into the copied server directory and could not.

Thinking something was funky I tried to delete the whole JBoss directory but got this maddening and uninformative window.

Microsoft Windows Vista Error 0x80070091

I googled for a long time but could not find a satisfying solution. I gave myself full control permissions for all files and folders but that did not help. Then I noticed that if I clicked on one of the directories that Windows Vista was not letting me delete I would be prompted for permission to enter this directory. Then I would repeat this process for all directories within. After doing this I could delete that directory.

I then looked in Cygwin and found out what Vista had done, it had simply given the directory read and write permission.

Therefore the simple solution was to do the following:

chmod -R 500 .

After doing that simple change I could remove everything.

This post is a log of how I personally got Subversion running on Dreamhost using this post.

Obtained the Subversion source from http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html#source-release, compiled it, and put the binaries in my ~/bin directory.
Added the Subversion binaries to my path by adding these lines to my ~/.bash_profile file.
```
# Set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
  PATH="~/bin:${PATH}"
fi
```
For this change to take effect you either have to relogin or:
```
$ . ~/.bash_profile
```

Initialized new subversion repositories. For example:

$ svnadmin create ~/svn/mk 
$ svn mkdir \
    file:///home/fkim/svn/mk/trunk \ 
    file:///home/fkim/svn/mk/branches \
    file:///home/fkim/svn/mk/tags

I am following the suggested way of organizing a Subversion repository.

Imported the files into the subversion repository. For example:
```
svn import ~/meetingkoreans.com file:///home/fkim/svn/mk/trunk/
svn import ~/meetingkoreans.com svn+ssh://fkim@meetingkoreans.com/home/fkim/svn/mk/trunk/
```
Note: I was having a strange problem when I tried to do an import and kept getting an already exists error. It turned out the problem was because what I was trying to import was a link instead of the actual directory. This might only be an issue on Cygwin.

Checked the files out. To do this locally:

svn co file:///home/fkim/svn/mk/trunk meetingkoreans.com

To do this remotely:

svn co svn+ssh://fkim@meetingkoreans.com/home/fkim/svn/mk/trunk mkrb

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