Why does tortoise svn take so long to update icons after commit? Fix?

This has been bugging me for years - my code is on a local hard drive and I h开发者_开发百科ave used tortoise SVN with Windows XP and Windows 7. After a commit tortoise SVN takes anywhere from 5 minutes to 5 days to update icons. As you can imagine this is frustrating - I can't immediately tell which files/folders have changed because the state is stuck in pre-commit. Is there a fix?

I can't answer the "why does this happen" part of your question. But I have found that running the "Clean Up" command often resolves this.