Windows Explorer icons in TortoiseSVN take a long time to refresh to correct state

Question

After I commit files, the icons stay on either modified or waiting for commit for a long time. Is there any way to force a refresh to ensure that the icon that I am seeing

Answer 1

Windows' "refresh" (F5) mostly works for me (OK, I press it obsessively, too), but sometimes a window doesn't have any icon overlays at all. In these cases, "Cleanup" doesn't help either, no matter which options I choose, including "Refresh Shell Overlays".

I followed the tip from gekowa:

TortoiseSVN -> Settings -> Icon Overlay, set Status Cache to 'Shell' instead of 'Default'

and the next time I opened the window, the overlays were correct. It took a few seconds for the window to open, but everything was right after that. The I set the Status Cache back to "Shell" and the time lag went away, too.

Previously, I had set the Status Cache to "None", but that didn't help.