I deleted some lib files from my existing project, and now everytime I want to do a file search, this error pops up at then end of the search :-
It's not really interfering with the search results I think, but it is kinda annoying since every search brings this error out. Any suggestions on how to stop this?
I know this question is old and probably duplicate, but I happen to encounter the same issue today, and found this solution:
On Package Explorer, select the your project then press F5 (Refresh). Do this to all opened projects."File search has encountered a problem" error happens when your workspace is not sync with your file system (e.g. when you deleted a file that is currently opened in eclipse, etc.)
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The title pretty much says it all, but to make things worse, new files aren't tracked as well. I figured that this is likely a rare exception, but it would be good to know what is causing the issue - in case a large project gets bugged by it. This question might help anyone who gets in this mess, so please post your suggestions.
Here is a screenshot of the situation: http://i.stack.imgur.com/iMn3O.png
Here is the screenshot I posted of the Settings... > Version Control > Ignored Files page: http://i.imgur.com/XwByblX.png It shows what is wrong on the 3rd line.
If you still can't index:
It might be because after removing the ignoring of your files, that the VCS hasn't been brought up to speed of the fact. Go to VCS > Show Changes View and then hit CTRL+F5 or click the Refresh Icon. Now you have Unversioned Files and you're ready to add files to the index.
I have solved the issue with a roundabout way. What I did was: I didn't include the .classpath file that Eclipse creates. IntellIJ asked if I wanted to open .project, I canceled that and just opened the project regularly, that solved it for me. It might have quietly induced the ignore entry from the screenshot.
The file is ignored. You have added your entire project directory to "Ignored files" in Settings | Version Control | Ignored Files, which leads to IntelliJ IDEA not showing any files as unversioned, and not allowing you to add them to Git.
You need to remove the project directory from the Ignored Files list.
I have read the other posts asking the same question but was unable to get my code to work. I have deleted my meta data and imported my files back in to no avail.
I have my workspace inside my dropbox folder to allow me to code from home or while away. Currently I am using my laptop which is not my primary coding machine. The project worked yesterday on this laptop however.
any help would be much obliged, I will provide any information that is required
First go to the Project menu and select "Clean...". That might solve it right off the bat.
If not, next you should right click on your "src" folder and select "Build Path" -> "Use as Source Folder". Then Clean again.
Try those two things and then report back with results.
I'm having a baffling problem with Eclipse on one of my machines, and it's driving me nuts. When I use File Search, I no longer get the details of each hit within the files. It used to do that, and at some point it stopped. I can only assume that I either installed some plugin that goofed it up or fat-fingered some obscure keyboard shortcut that caused it to stop working. My home machine, which has roughly the same setup (since I work on most of the same projects on it) does not have that issue. Here's a quick screen shot of my home machine, which does have the details that I would like:
And here's what it looks like on my other machine, with the lack of line context:
I'm totally baffled here. Can anybody help out?
Judging by past items...
...closing Eclipse and then running it with the -clean parameter (e.g. eclipse.exe -clean) might do the trick. Or it might not.
One more suggestion. This is not a nice or pretty suggestion and it doesn't tell you why you have a problem, but it just may work.
in your good machine, File -> Export... -> Preferences
in your bad machine, create a new empty workspace
import all of the preferences from your good machine.
If search is now working properly, then import all of your old projects to the new workspace.
This just might work.
This is identical to this comment thread on bugs.eclipse.org -> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=47136#c44
Unfortunately, the recommended solution is to reinstall Eclipse
You might try looking in the logs, to identify if there's a specific incompatibility with a Plugin.
From http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-core/documents/3.1/debug.html
Generally in Eclipse when you get an error, a message and stack trace
is logged to your workspace log. This is great but can easily be
missed unless you are looking for it. And some plug-ins silently log
entries to the log file. Tsk tsk. In order to never miss entries being
logged, we use the -consoleLog command-line argument. This basically
means "anything you log to the log file should be logged to the
console as well".
eclipse -consoleLog
So, try running eclipse -consoleLog, and see if you get an error when running the search. Do the same thing on both computers, to compare and contrast.
There are different kinds of searches in Eclipse. It looks like the first search is a "File" search. I am not sure what kind of search the second one is, but it looks quite different. Make sure you are doing a "File" search on the second machine.
CTRL-h (or CMD-h on Mac). Select the "File search" tab. If you don't see it, then click on "Customize..." on the lower left and ensure that "File search" is shown.
I develop Java code with Eclipse and regularly get this message:
resource is out of sync with the filesystem.
Right-click > Refresh will always clear this.
But why can't Eclipse refresh automatically when it finds this condition? Are there cases where you want the resource to be out of sync?.
If there are such conditions and they don't apply to my work, is there a way of getting Eclipse to refresh automatically when it encounters this state?. (I appreciate that it should refresh as little as it needs to in normal development to increase performance for human developers.)
UPDATE (2012-06-25):
My latest update (Version: Indigo Release Build id: 20110615-0604)
no longer shows
Preferences - General - Workspace - Refresh Automatically
There is an option "Refresh on access" - should I use this?
You can enable this in Window - Preferences - General - Workspace - Refresh Automatically (called Refresh using native hooks or polling in newer builds)
The only reason I can think why this isn't enabled by default is performance related.
For example, refreshing source folders automatically might trigger a build of the workspace. Perhaps some people want more control over this.
There is also an article on the Eclipse site regarding auto refresh.
Basically, there is no external trigger that notifies Eclipse of files changed outside the workspace. Rather a background thread is used by Eclipse to monitor file changes that can possibly lead to performance issues with large workspaces.
Just right click on the file or on the project and click Refresh. The error will vanish. I also faced the same issue and it worked for me.
Window -> Preferences -> General -> Workspace
For the new Indigo version, the Preferences change to "Refresh on access", and with a detail explanation : Automatically refresh external workspace changes on access via the workspace.
As “resource is out of sync with the filesystem” this problem happens when I use external workspace, so after I select this option, problem solved.
This happens to me all the time.
Go to the error log, find the exception, and open a few levels until you can see something more like a root cause. Does it says "Resource is out of sync with the file system" ?
When renaming packages, of course, Eclipse has to move files around in the file system. Apparently what happens is that it later discovers that something it thinks it needs to clean up has been renamed, can't find it, throws an exception.
There are a couple of things you might try. First, go to Window: Preferences, Workspace, and enable "Refresh Automatically". In theory this should fix the problem, but for me, it didn't.
Second, if you are doing a large refactoring with subpackages, do the subpackages one at a time, from the bottom up, and explicitly refresh with the file system after each subpackage is renamed.
Third, just ignore the error: when the error dialog comes up, click Abort to preserve the partial change, instead of rolling it back. Try it again, and again, and you may find you can get through the entire operation using multiple retries.
If this occurs trying to delete a folder (on *nix) and Refresh does not help, open a terminal and look for a symlink below the folder you are trying to delete and remove this manually. This solved my issues.
When you open an Eclipse workspace from within a clearcase view and try to rename the project, you will often get the pop-up warning ... “Resource ‘project’ is out of sync with the file system”. If refreshing the project does not fix the problem, then do the following workaround: a. Open workspace WITHOUT being in a view b. Select the project in Project Explorer c. ClearCase -> Associate Project (project should now look like project [] ) d. Right click project -> Refresh (vob sub-folders should now be empty) e. Right click project -> Rename ... f. Enter New name
Now you can close the workspace, reopen it in a view and refresh the project. You may also dissociate the project if you prefer the project not to be associated with the vob.
A little hint. The message often appears during rename operation. The quick workaround for me is pressing Ctrl-Y (redo shortcut) after message confirmation. It works only if the renaming affects a single file.
If you are a regular Eclipse user than you might have got this error many times. The error simply says, “you’ve made changes in files in your workspace from outside eclipse”. The simplest solution would be to select the project and press F5 (Right click -> Refresh).
if you need more explanation you can read from this web site
I was not able to resolve this error by either refresh or by turning on "native polling" workspace feature. Turned out my project was also opened in two instances of eclipse. Once I closed the other instance, the error went away. So make sure your project is only opened at one place if you are seeing this error.
If you press Shift+Ctrl+T or choose "Navigate > Open Type..." you get the "Open Type" dialog for quickly navigating to a known class. When you start typing a name only the classes for which the name matches stay visible. That way you can find a class of which you know the name very quick without having to browse through the package explorer tree.
This has been working great for me up until this morning. All of a sudden for a couple of my projects I am only seeing some of the types that exist. Of course I tried the obvious steps of refreshing the projects, cleaning the projects, re-building the projects, rebuilding the projects externally, but all to no avail. It is a bit odd since the types are known in other places. If I add an import statement Eclipse does not complain that it doesn't know the type and I can Ctrl-Click through the types to get to their file. However, the type navigation knows nothing about them.
In the past when InteliJ used to do this to me I would go find its cache files and delete them forcing it to rebuild. Does Eclipse have something similar I might do (I'm an Eclipse newbie)? I am using Eclipse 3.4.2 and I have it configured to not delete files on a clean (because our actual build process puts files into the output directories that I don't want Eclipse mucking with).
Have you tried closing and reopening the project? Only types from open projects are held in memory, and the refresh occurs when you Shift+Ctrl+T for the first time on a newly opened project.
Edit to add: Ctrl+Shift+R also displays the types (along with everything else) but it also supports the Camel-case thing to find the Java types quickly.
Close eclipse and delete any .index files and the savedIndexNames.txt file in workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.jdt.core once eclipse is restarted it will rebuildl the entire index for Ctrl+T
try starting eclipse with the -clean flag, you can add this to your eclipse.ini which can be found in the same directory as you eclispe.exe, or if you start eclipse using a bat or shell script, add it as a startup argument, e.g. eclipse -clean.
The clean will tidy your workspace, and should force eclipse JDT to recalulate types. Ive had issue with .snap files (with seem to be created on dirty shutdowns) that seem to corrupt my workspace until I clean them up, not long ago eclipse lost the Object class!! made for some interesting errors!
I get problems like this often. I tried your solution, noticed it seemed to rebuild its search index, but I still couldn't find any of my classes. Then I took a look at the little green arrow on top right corner of that dialog, and noticed I had a working set selected which belonged to another project. I find it a little dumb that Eclipse doesn't warn you about this or anything, since this can be a very annoying little detail that one tends to forget (me at least ;-)).
Anyways, clicked on "Deselect Working Set" and bam I can find my classes again. Thought I'd add this here since others may make the same mistake.
This worked for me -
Select your project in Package Explorer
Press F5 or Right click and select Refresh
I used the "-clean" as first line in the eclipse.ini (version Juno) and worked like a charm.
I'v tried all the answers and I still had the issue. I then tried this:
I deleted the project (it's a maven project) and re-imported it. This time I made sure i check the "Add Project(s) to working set" checkbox. After that Eclipse was able to find the classes in that project.
The problem must have started because I didn't check this checkbox when i first imported this project.
By the way, I'm using Neon
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If you like this feature, you would love nWire. nWire allows, among other things, to quickly search not only for types, but for any possible Java element like method or field. It also uses a navigator view which is non-modal. After searching you can see the class associations in a very quick and easy way. Check out the video on our site.