Re: Keeping preferences after deleting the configuration Data (Was Up date problem)

Duane,

Preferences are generally stored in:
workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime\.settings
So you should not have lost any preferences (unless you cleared or used a
new workspace)

In the future, you could try clearing only the following folder to see if
that helps:
D:\Program
Files\IBM\Rational\SDP\6.0\eclipse\configuration\org.eclipse.osgi\jxes

Also, my instruction below contained a small typo:
It should be:
c:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\SDP\6.0\rationalsdp -clean

NOT

c:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\SDP\6.0\rationasdp -clean

hope this helps!

Violaine Batthish
WebSphere Development Studio Client, IBM Toronto Lab

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing
more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. - Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry



wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 13/04/2006 01:50:09 PM:

> Violaine;
>
> After applying a fix I had similar problems thus I used the -clean option
to
> no avail. I have done the configuration "delete" previously and have lost
> all the preferences I had set up. Hoping to save some frustration I
exported
> the preferences before deleting the configuration data, deleted the
> configuration data and restarted WDSC. I then imported the saved
> preferences. I still lost all of my previous preferences
> (Window->Preferences).
>
> Is there something I can do to save the preferences before I do an
> update/install and get them back after the update/install??? Other than
the
> frustrating 3-4 days of "d*#& that doesn't work now, how did I set that
up
> in the first place???"
>
> Duane Christen
>
>
>
> 1. Close workbench
> 2. Start up workbench by running the following command:
> c:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\SDP\6.0\rationasdp -clean
>
> If the problem doesn't go away.  Please try the following:
> 1. Close workbench
> 2. Delete the contents of the following folder:
> c:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\SDP\6.0\eclipse\configuration
> 3. restart workbench
>
>
> Violaine Batthish
> WebSphere Development Studio Client, IBM Toronto Lab