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Where does Eclipse store its settings? (Mac OS) [message #1759653]

Fri, 14 April 2017 14:43

Daniel Thompson

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Registered: April 2017

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My eclipse instance is in the ~/eclipse/neon-jee folder. But there are no config files there. Where are they stored?

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Re: Where does Eclipse store its settings? (Mac OS) [message #1759795 is a reply to message #1759653]

Tue, 18 April 2017 14:26

Eric Rizzo

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Registered: July 2009

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Most preferences are stored under the workspace location, in a folder named .metadata. If you use project-specific settings (a good idea in general), those are stored under the project root directories in various folders and files, mostly beginning with .

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