What are the ".index" files - can I safely delete them? [message #1137475] |
Mon, 14 October 2013 14:16  |
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Trying to reduce the size of my (DB synced) workspace - realized that the folder
${workspace_loc}\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.jdt.core
was taking ~35 Mbytes - the contents of the folder are `.index` files (which take the most space) and some others (which are a couple Kb worth) :
[0-9]*\.index
externalLibsTimeStamps
indexNamesMap.txt
invalidArchivesCache
javaLikeNames.txt
nonChainingJarsCache
participantsIndexNames.txt
savedIndexNames.txt
variablesAndContainers.dat
I can't seem to be able to find docs on those. Can I safely delete them ? Can you point me to some docs on the JDT plugin folders/files contained in ${workspace_location}\.metadata\ directory ?
Is there any way via the gui to clean up the caches (preferably periodically) ?
PS : I 'm on Kepler if this makes a difference
PS2 : links to docs may be links to code comments and such
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Re: What are the ".index" files - can I safely delete them? [message #1137589 is a reply to message #1137475] |
Mon, 14 October 2013 15:51   |
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The index-files is where JDT stores informations need to do content
assist, ... , if you delete them they'll get recreated IIRC because you
really need them!
Tom
On 14.10.13 16:17, Palmer Eldritch wrote:
> Trying to reduce the size of my (DB synced) workspace - realized that
> the folder
> ${workspace_loc}\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.jdt.core
> was taking ~35 Mbytes - the contents of the folder are `.index` files
> (which take the most space) and some others (which are a couple Kb worth) :
>
> [0-9]*\.index
> externalLibsTimeStamps
> indexNamesMap.txt
> invalidArchivesCache
> javaLikeNames.txt
> nonChainingJarsCache
> participantsIndexNames.txt
> savedIndexNames.txt
> variablesAndContainers.dat
> I can't seem to be able to find docs on those. Can I safely delete them
> ? Can you point me to some docs on the JDT plugin folders/files
> contained in ${workspace_location}\.metadata\ directory ? Is there any
> way via the gui to clean up the caches (preferably periodically) ?
>
> PS : I 'm on Kepler if this makes a difference
> PS2 : links to docs may be links to code comments and such
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