RE: WDSc 'Problems during startup.' error

> From: Bennion, Eric D. (Artco)
> 
> I experience problems where WDSC seemed to forget where my Java
programs
> were and wouldn't let me run them.  I'm assuming that the .metadata
file
> has
> this information and perhaps the information that's causing your
problem.
> One of the things I tried was to change the name of my IBM folder in
my My
> Documents folder to IBM.old and then restart WDSC and it should
recreate
> your IBM folder.  The only caveat to all this is that you'll have to
copy
> your entire source from your IBM.old folder to your new one.  I don't
know
> if there will be any other side effects so maybe somebody out there
with a
> little more knowledge may want to comment on the merits of this
solution.

As Mark points out, the "official" solution from the IBM team is to
rename the .config folder.  When I talked to the guys in the lab, they
said that this is the safest way to attempt a rebuild (short of starting
a new workspace from scratch).

I've used this technique a couple of times in the last few weeks, and it
seems to work just fine.  Twice I lost all the perspectives (I got the
"unable to open perspective" message) and was able to recover by
renaming the .config folder, restarting WDSC, and then going into each
perspective and selecting "Reset Perspective".  This even worked on my
custom perspectives!

(Although as a side note, I'm still looking for the place where an icon
is assigned to a perspective.  If anyone has found that, please let me
know!)

Joe