Roland Johansen
Deity
Those ".svn" folders maintain all of the information about the files you have pulled from SVN. You could uninstall* TortoiseSVN, leaving the ".svn" folders on your hard drive, and at some later point reinstall Tortoise and sync to the latest version of the repo.
The only downside to keeping the ".svn" folders is the small space they take up. You can always just grab the full repo later rather than just the changed files. The ".svn" folders allow you to grab just what has changed.
*Or simply disahle it from running using msconfig I think. I'm not sure since it's an extension to Windows Explorer rather than a separate program, but I suspect that'd work.
The hard disk space is no problem. I just don't like to have programs that automatically take up system memory without me asking them to start. This program is not one of the items in the startup tab of the System Configuration Utility (I had already checked that), so I can't disable it that way. It's not a real problem though. I'll keep it running in system memory for now, it's not that big. I might uninstall it in a few weeks. For now, it might be useful if I want to use the newest improvements created by this great team.
Thanks for the help.