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Upgrading Eclipse and retaining settings [message #201558]

Fri, 23 March 2007 23:48

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: Qu0llSixFour.gmail.com

I have Eclipse 3.2.1 and I wish to install 3.3M5 and retain all my settings.
What's the correct way to do this? Is it just a case of unzipping the
folder contents on top of the existing files?

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Re: Upgrading Eclipse and retaining settings [message #201623 is a reply to message #201558]

Sat, 24 March 2007 20:50

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: eclipse5.rizzoweb.com

Qu0ll wrote:
> I have Eclipse 3.2.1 and I wish to install 3.3M5 and retain all my
> settings. What's the correct way to do this? Is it just a case of
> unzipping the folder contents on top of the existing files?
>

No, definitely don't do that - it will not work.
You have two options:
A) Install 3.3 seperately but point it to your existing workspace when
it starts up. Eclipse stores all your Preferences in the workspace. Just
make sure to back up the workspace because once you touch it with 3.3 it
will not longer be compatible with 3.2
B) You can use a new workspace for 3.3 but export all Preferences
settings from 3.2 via the menu File > Export

Hope this helps,
Eric

Re: Upgrading Eclipse and retaining settings [message #201755 is a reply to message #201623]

Mon, 26 March 2007 17:56

Eclipse User

Eric Rizzo wrote:

> A) Install 3.3 seperately but point it to your existing workspace when
> it starts up. Eclipse stores all your Preferences in the workspace. Just
> make sure to back up the workspace because once you touch it with 3.3 it
> will not longer be compatible with 3.2
> B) You can use a new workspace for 3.3 but export all Preferences
> settings from 3.2 via the menu File > Export

I just renamed my old eclipse directory (3.2.2 + some callisto
components - CDT, etc.) out of the way, and unpacked the new eclipse
(virgin 3.3M6 zip from eclipse.org) in its place.

I got one "error" when opening an existing workspace (because of some
setting for a component that was not in the new zip - a component I
don't use anyway), but after that everything's just fine. It was a very
smooth transition.

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