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How to move workspace to another machine [message #315488]

Thu, 10 May 2007 10:50

Eclipse User

Hi,

I want to move my project workspace to another machine. When I move the
folders and then import them into my other machine's eclipse I get a
whole bunch of error in every project inside of my workspace. What is
the proper way to move a workspace to another machine?

Thanks,
Roshan

Re: How to move workspace to another machine [message #315490 is a reply to message #315488]

Thu, 10 May 2007 11:04

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: merks.ca.ibm.com

Roshan,

I think you'd be best off to export the projects to an archive, and them
import existing projects from that archive at the other end.

Roshan Soni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to move my project workspace to another machine. When I move
> the folders and then import them into my other machine's eclipse I get
> a whole bunch of error in every project inside of my workspace. What
> is the proper way to move a workspace to another machine?
>
> Thanks,
> Roshan

Re: How to move workspace to another machine [message #315521 is a reply to message #315488]

Fri, 11 May 2007 10:15

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: eclipse5.rizzoweb.com

Roshan Soni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to move my project workspace to another machine. When I move the
> folders and then import them into my other machine's eclipse I get a
> whole bunch of error in every project inside of my workspace. What is
> the proper way to move a workspace to another machine?

The only way it can work seamlessly is if the filesystem location of the
workspace is identical on both machines. See, the workspace is designed
to be machine-specific and may contain data with filesystem paths in it.
I actually did move a workspace to a new machine once or twice, but I
had to either make the locations identical or search the entire
workspace for any absolute file path references and change/delete them -
it was a pain.

I second the recommendation to export the projects and then import them
on the new machine. You'll also want to export the Preferences from the
first machine and import them into the new one.

Hope this helps,
Eric

Re: How to move workspace to another machine [message #315589 is a reply to message #315488]

Tue, 15 May 2007 08:55

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: lamont_gilbert.rigidsoftware.com

On Thu, 10 May 2007 09:50:21 -0500, Roshan Soni wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to move my project workspace to another machine. When I move the
> folders and then import them into my other machine's eclipse I get a
> whole bunch of error in every project inside of my workspace. What is
> the proper way to move a workspace to another machine?
>
> Thanks,
> Roshan

Are your projects within your workspace? If not, you need to move both
and it could take a bit of path resolition as well. If so, you still need
to consider if your installed JVMs have different paths on the different
machines.

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