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In the checkout Dialogue it would be helpful, after you selected the repository folder eg. project-name\trunk or project-name\branch, to add the project-name to 'last' known Local Folder location. I understand that in svn it is not obvious which svn layout is currently used, since any layout, not only trunk\,branch\,tag\ can be used. However Nb could discover 'known' svn layouts and from that extract the project-name, which can be used in the 'Local Folder'.