Why Eclipse Kepler opens default workspace on startup regardless of the prompt preference?

Question

On start up, Eclipse Kepler always opens the welcome information with a default blank workspace. Eclipse cannot restore the workspace when it exists. Also, it no longer ask for workspace on startup regardless if the prompt preference is chenked.

So everytime I have to manually open the default workspace by clicking on "File"-->"Switch Workspace" and chosing my workspace. This is annoying.

I think I have made the correct settings. On "Preferences"-->"General"-->"Startup and Shutdown"-->"Workspace", I enable the option "Prompt for workspace on startup". But it never worked.

Accroding to another questionHow to force Eclipse to ask for default workspace?, I tried the "-clean" parameter. However it is still no use.

Is it a bug for Eclipse Kepler or I have made a wrong setting? Any Advice to fix the problem? Thanks ahead.

More informations are as follows:

OS: Windows 8.1 x86 Edition: Eclipse Kepler Standard Edition Service Release 2
Plugins: ADT Plugins only
Install path: D:\Program Files\Eclipse
Parameters: No parameters used to launch Eclipse.exe, just like "D:\Program Files\Eclipse\e

clipse.exe"

Discussions similar to this problems:

There is [a similar discussion on the Eclipse forum](https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/490088/1188611/#msg_1188611) which may be helpful to understand the issue. — Zhenye Dong, Sep 26 '14 at 09:21
Could it be, that Eclipse isn't able to write its preference file, because of windows User Access Control? — SME_Dev, Sep 26 '14 at 09:22
I noticed this possibility that UAC may causes this issue. But when I launch the Eclipse Kepler by Administrator, it still opened the default blank workspace. — Zhenye Dong, Sep 26 '14 at 09:30
A better UAC test is to completely turn off this feature, and/or move Eclipse to a directory, that is not a child directory of /programs/ or /users/ and /windows/ — SME_Dev, Sep 26 '14 at 09:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

Until now, there is several ways to try:

Launch the Eclipse.exe by adding a -clean parameter. According to here.
Launch the Eclipse.exe by adding a -data <work space> parameter. According to here.
Delete the eclipse.ini file. According to here.

As for me, the second way is a workaround although I still don't know the reason. The first is popular on the web but not working for me, while the third way is not recommended by myself.

Futher discussions or answers are welcomed.

Why Eclipse Kepler opens default workspace on startup regardless of the prompt preference?

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