The information saved and stored by Eclipse about the configuration of the workspace, its projects and plugins.
Questions tagged [eclipse-metadata]
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Clean out Eclipse workspace metadata
I use multiple workspaces with Eclipse. I recently noticed that some of my workspaces have a lot of cruft in them from software packages that I installed and then later removed. As far as I can tell, the situation is that many packages write stuff…
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Where does Eclipse save the list of files to open on startup?
Question: where does Eclipse store the list of files it opens on startup?
Background: Having installed a plugin into Eclipse which promptly crashed, my Eclipse workspace is in a bit of a state. When started, the building workspace task pauses…
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Eclipse .metadata\.plugins disk space
Eclipse's .metadata/.plugins seems to consume way too much space (235 MB), is there something I can safely throw away and still be happy?
I archive my source root, and this seems to take away all my space. This is a project with several Java…
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Eclipse does not open my workspace
I am getting this error when loading my workspace in eclipse.
An error has occurred.See the log file
D:\XXX\App_name\.metadata\.log.
I can able to open other workspaces and also able to create new onw.I didnt save the copy of my code.Please…
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Ubuntu crashed, Eclipse lost .metadata, Java Perspective gone, missing, lost
I am running Eclipse Galileo on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Ubuntu crashed on me today, and after rebooting, I found that Eclipse has completely lost the Java Perspective (it's like the perspective and all associated views never existed) and the .metadata dir…
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Where are per-file editor type overrides stored
In Eclipse, you have a set of default editors set up in Preferences > General > Editors > File Associations. When you open a file, if you select "Open With" and choose an editor other than the default for that file type, Eclipse remembers which…
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where are project-properties/run-debug-settings in eclipse .metadata folder
i'm working with eclipse c/c++ helios.
i'm using template projects with makefile with a multimedia framework. all dll dependencies are specified in makefile, so no nightmare.
i have an empty projects template, so each time i had to start a new…
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Eclipse .classpath in SVN: JRE collision
I'm about to commit Eclipse .classpath and .project into SVN, following the good advice I got here on SO.
The problem is that some JRE definitions are unique to a developer's machine, e.g.:
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Turn off Auto Build in Eclipse CDT directly on files in Workspace metadata
How to turn off Auto Build feature in Eclipse CDT, using metadata files in WorkSpace directory for the project without using any dialog boxes and window wizards.
Any file under project workspace…
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Problems Saving workspace in Eclipse
i Just deleted all projects from the following folder
C:\Users\admin\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects
After that i always got error message…
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