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eclipse settings vanish after Ubuntu upgrade [message #885420]

Wed, 13 June 2012 00:47

elric best

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Registered: June 2012

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My eclipse projects, settings and plug-ins are no longer available after Ubuntu update from 10.04 for 12.04

The version of eclipse is the same. I think the solution is to copy my previous eclipse settings over my new ones. Does anyone know the path that Eclipse settings and plugins are stored in?

Thanks.

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Re: eclipse settings vanish after Ubuntu upgrade [message #885753 is a reply to message #885420]

Wed, 13 June 2012 14:32

Michael Rennie

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Canada

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Most settings are stored on a per-workspace basis and can be found in the .metadata folder of any given workspace.

For example: /<path_to_my_workspace>/myworkspace/.metadata/

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Re: eclipse settings vanish after Ubuntu upgrade [message #886200 is a reply to message #885753]

Thu, 14 June 2012 12:34

Stephan Herrmann

Messages: 1853
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Carrying over your complete Eclipse configuration accross a major upgrade of your Linux distro actually involves two issues (at least):
(1) re-adding any plugins you manually installed on top of the Ubuntu-provided Eclipse package.
(2) carry over all your preference settings.

Item (1) is not expected to work out of the box, but this feature should help some: http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/whatsNew/platform_whatsnew.html - jump to Install/Update (new in 3.7)

(2) could actually work out of the box if you are re-using the same workspaces. Settings will be found in .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings and should still be effective. If more sophisticated sharing of settings is desired addtional plugins like workspacemechanic might be of help.

HTH,
Stephan

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