I went about my normal business of starting up Eclipse and I could only get oh so far before I got into a staring contest with this screen. (It’s just the normal Eclipse Ganymede loading screen except I changed the splash image to be more appealing).
It said that it was loading so I decided to wait it out, after 3 or 4 times my normal wait it was obvious that Eclipse was not going to start up.
I remembered that I was in a rush to leave the previous night and I didn’t let Eclipse close down properly, apparently this was my punishment.
So I scoured the interwebs searching for a solution.
I tried doing a –clean, to no avail.
I used a –consolelog to try and see what was going on but the only abnormal thing I could find was this little gem.
!MESSAGE The workspace exited with unsaved changes in the previous session; refreshing workspace to recover changes.
This message led me to this blog where the solution was lying in waiting.
Just delete the
{Path.To.Eclipse}\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources
folder. This causes eclipse to “forget” about your projects, but you can easily Import them back in.
Eclipse then opened up right away and all my settings were right where I had left them.
#1 by Chris Aniszczyk on November 9, 2009 - 2:01 pm
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Cool splash screen.
We are in the process of adding a new splash screen for the Eclipse Helios (3.6) release. If you have suggestions, please file a bug against Platform/UI
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Platform
#2 by Chris on November 9, 2009 - 6:18 pm
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Thanks, I totally cant take credit for it though. I got it from Lee Brimlow’s site at this address. http://theflashblog.com/?p=483
#3 by Chris on February 24, 2010 - 8:54 pm
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For me, it was even a little easier:
I just deleted “.snap” in the folder “org.eclipse.core.resources”. That didn’t damage (or reset) my workspace but Eclipse came up again
I don’t know if that works for everyone, I just had a single project in the workspace.