Re: What gets deleted when you delete the configuration folder?

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/17/2006 05:37:54 PM:

> I am told that to fix one of our problems I have to delete the 
> following folder:
> 
> C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\SDP\6.0\eclipse\configuration
> 
> What gets deleted when you delete that.  I have spent a few hours 
> recreating my environment (filters, commands, etc).  I do not want 
> to delete the folder and have to recreate everything all over again.
> If this stuff does get deleted is there a way to save a file that 
> contains this information and restore it?

The stuff you mentioned is all in the workspace.  The configuration folder 
is mainly an Eclipse internal thing.  Eclipse caches a lot of information 
about your install to improve the startup performance.  Occasionally it 
gets out of sorts and deleting it is an easy way to force it to rebuild 
all of its cache. 

If you follow the steps I outlined in this message:

http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l/200604/msg00061.html

You accomplish the same goal as deleting the folder while preserving the 
few bits of info that might be worth preserving.

Mark



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