Recovering a corrupted Eclipse Workspace

James Hawes — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:57:30 +0000

I know there are sites available that detail how to recover from a corrupted Eclipse Workspace, so this is more for my benefit.

Recently I’ve begun to experience corrupted workspaces in my Eclipse IDE. It generally coinsides to my Tomcat server unable to stop in a timely fashion. Generally I have to kill Eclipse and restart. Most of the time the workspace won’t restart.

Steps to recover from a corrupted Eclipse Workspace:

Shutdown/kill Eclipse
Open up a command prompt or terminal
Navigate to your workspace
Navigate to /.metadata/.plugins/
remove org.eclipse.core.resources (in terminal rm -r -f org.eclipse.core.resources)
Navigate to your Eclipse home directory
Run eclipse -clean
Launch the corrupted workspace
Re-import your projects; you should be able to re-import all projects straight from the workspace directory
Let the workspace refresh…DONE!

Clearly what this does is remove some Meta Data from the workspace. By re-importing that Meta Data is restored. I must say though that this is quit a number of hoops to jump through. I’m just glad they aren’t firey hoops!

Hopefully someone will find this useful!

Cleaning Eclipse

James Hawes — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:24:44 +0000

Every-so-often I find that Eclipse simply begins to “act funny”. Searches on the internet will produce many reasons why; the most common is associated with all the meta data that Eclipse stores and uses. One of the more practical, and easiest solutions (let alone produces the best results), is to run a clean on Eclipse.

On windows:

Open a command prompt
Navigate to your eclipse.exe location
run eclipse -clean

On mac/unix:

Open a terminal window
Navigation to your Eclipse installation
run eclipse -clean

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Recovering a corrupted Eclipse Workspace

Cleaning Eclipse