>>There may be a better and quicker way, but in a case like this I >> would do a clean checkout. It takes a few hours, but at least you >> can be sure everything is as it should be. > > How do I do that? > > My fear is as my local tree continually self-explodes, I am going > to end up cloninge the entire tree, which at 4 or 5 GBs will take > all damn day. That's what I was suggesting :) Yes, it does take a hell of a lot of time :( > There must be some kind of repair procedure? I don't know either :( Michele