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Eclipse Keeps Losing My Project [message #677804] Thu, 09 June 2011 12:35 Go to next message
Brandon Mising name is currently offline Brandon Mising nameFriend
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I have been creating a large Eclipse C++ project (13 .cpp files and 17 .h files, all less than 70 KB) for about four months. It is on Fedora Linux running under VMWare.

About a month ago, my computer froze and I was ultimately forced to pull the plug and re-boot with everything open. I am not sure if there is a causal relationship, but later that day, when I went into the project, for every open file, the editor showed an icon of white minus sign in a red circle and the words, "Could not open the editor. The file does not exist." The project was also conspicuously absent from the Project Explorer pane on the left. When I went into Project -> Properties, the Location showed "resource does not exist." All of my other projects, most of which had been earlier small warm-up exercises, continued to work fine. After some Googling for an explanation, I was forced to re-create the project. Then, the same thing happened again a week later, without me "pulling the plug" on the PC. Then this started happening every few days, and now it happens every second or third time I exit and re-enter Eclipse. I created a new VMWare virtual and re-installed Eclipse, bringing over only my source code files, but it didn't help. What is happening? Why is it happening? If it continues, soon I will have to move to a different IDE. I am getting faster at re-building the project, but still expending time and frustration on this. Has anyone seen this behavior before?

Thanks.

Brandon
Re: Eclipse Keeps Losing My Project [message #681879 is a reply to message #677804] Fri, 10 June 2011 02:11 Go to previous message
Russell Bateman is currently offline Russell BatemanFriend
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On 2011.06.09 6:35, Brandon wrote:
> I have been creating a large Eclipse C++ project (13 .cpp files and 17
> .h files, all less than 70 KB) for about four months. It is on Fedora
> Linux running under VMWare.
> About a month ago, my computer froze and I was ultimately forced to pull
> the plug and re-boot with everything open. I am not sure if there is a
> causal relationship, but later that day, when I went into the project,
> for every open file, the editor showed an icon of white minus sign in a
> red circle and the words, "Could not open the editor. The file does not
> exist." The project was also conspicuously absent from the Project
> Explorer pane on the left. When I went into Project -> Properties, the
> Location showed "resource does not exist." All of my other projects,
> most of which had been earlier small warm-up exercises, continued to
> work fine. After some Googling for an explanation, I was forced to
> re-create the project. Then, the same thing happened again a week later,
> without me "pulling the plug" on the PC. Then this started happening
> every few days, and now it happens every second or third time I exit and
> re-enter Eclipse. I created a new VMWare virtual and re-installed
> Eclipse, bringing over only my source code files, but it didn't help.
> What is happening? Why is it happening? If it continues, soon I will
> have to move to a different IDE. I am getting faster at re-building the
> project, but still expending time and frustration on this. Has anyone
> seen this behavior before?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Brandon

Maybe first try talking to the C/C++ folks on the Eclipse CDT forum.
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