Re: Workspace issues other people are reporting

On 3/1/2013 10:58 AM, DeLong, Eric wrote:

I've never really poked too closely, but I wonder if, when creating a new workspace to fix some glitch, if it's safe to copy the ".metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings" folder from old workspace and drop it into new workspace. I hesitate, since whatever might have hosed up the original workspace *could* be a configuration setting within that folder... I might try some file compares on the settings, since it's all text. Might be nice to have a way to see what's different between a shiny new workspace and one that has been beaten up.

Has anyone had experiences with this folder?

RSE has changed internally quite a lot between 7.0.0.8 and 8.5.1. After
5+ years on 7, I was very comfortable editing the XML files that made up
the configuration elements.

I'm no longer that comfortable. Unless I miss my guess, the 8.5 RSE is
the Eclipse open source version maybe with a tweak or two :-) The
configuration elements are now spread across a hierarchy of directories.
One can't simply copy the .prefs files over to a new workspace; there's
at least one more tree that needs to be looked at:
.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.rse.core\profiles\PRF.myprofilename_2043

There may be more. I have not done a lot of poking yet. If I do
something stupid I will get into the guts, but I hesitate to learn the
Eclipse 3.6 RSE only to be forced to relearn RSE at Eclipse 4.2+ I'm
not at all complaining - no one in their right mind should try to
manually recreate all the interlocking pieces parts that go into the RSE
configuration. For those of us who might occasionally and temporarily
stray from the strictest interpretation of 'right mind', it can be
interesting to know what the innards look like.
--buck