SVN not working in Eclipse

Question

One day I pressed in Eclipse Help -> Check for Updates (and I learnt that I should Never Ever update a software which works fine.)

Then in

Answer 1

The problem I had was that svn icons where not showing in the package explorer.

The solution for me was to delete the .metadata folder in the workspace folder (which will reset all your workspace including preferences and repository configurations)

After that all the icons appeared.