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We use the Flare SVN Client in Flare 9.1.1. Every now and then, our *.flprj files just disappear. Until now, it's happened to users where I assumed user error might be to blame. But during the last couple of days it happened to me and another writer who tend to understand SVN better than others.

When this happens, we send the project to the Recycle Bin and reimport it. No one has lost work yet, but at some point, it is bound to happen.

You can search for the project file on the local system and it is gone without a trace, other than references in links and sub-project folders. The SVN logs don't indicate anything out of the ordinary.

Can anyone imagine what might be causing this?

All I can report is that my client and I have not seen this happen. We're using Flare 9.1.1 and SVN 1.7, 5+ days a week, working on the same projects. Have you asked MapCap?

I looked through the history of the FLPRJ file that disappeared. The morning that my working copy of the file disappeared, a coworker checked in a change to the FLPRJ file, right before the disappearance.

I reiterated to the team (up to five people can be working on this project at any given time) that we should not be checking out and locking the project file. Early in our history with Flare, we saw that project locks cause all kinds of problems for other folks working on the files.