I've come across this issue so many times irrespective of whether I close eclipse properly or not. I mean, I can understand if the projects disappear if you fail to the close eclipse properly or if it crashes. But even when I close eclipse properly, below issue occurs.
Issue: I create a project in eclipse and work on it. When I'm done, I close eclipse and when I open eclipse after sometime (or after some days) using the same workspace, the project is disappeared from the Project Explorer. I will update with snapshots once I'm able to replicate the issue again.
I was able to recover my projects using the steps provided in this answer, but I'm curious if there is any preventive measure/steps that can be followed to avoid this issue in the future so that I need not import my projects every time I open eclipse.
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I use eclipse Indigo, subclipse 1.10.x and javaNL. Whenever I try to refresh my project in eclipse, it gets stuck at Reverting Resources 0% and Computing Update Requirements 0%. I try to kill eclipse and reopen the project and it still does the same. I do not understand why this happens. It started happening recently. Before it was working fine.
Question: I do not understand why this happens
General Answer: http://www.ihateeclipse.com/
(I may share this opinions and dont think Eclipse should be called a IDE but that wont fix your problem - hence lets proceed with possible workarounds).
Possible Workarounds:
1.) Starting eclipse in clean mode How to run eclipse in clean mode? and what happens if we do so?. (This solved aprox. 80% of my continuously returning 'I messed up my own state' issues I experienced).
2.) If that doesnt help - you would have to stop eclipse, identify the according files (or just any files holding such information) and delete them manually, then restart eclipse. Like I still encounter issues with my "Search Type" (Ctrl+T) and have to delete the files like described here Eclipse type hierarchy not always working (unfortunately I don't know anything about files regarding your current issue - so feel free to downvote my "answer" since its not directly answering your question).
The best things I found about "the full reset" seem to be: http://letsgetdugg.com/2009/04/19/recovering-a-corrupt-eclipse-workspace/ or http://blog.pdark.de/2011/09/02/restoring-a-corrupted-workspace-in-eclipse/ (Note: I haven't verified the described behaviors).
3.) Recreate Workspace - delete any eclipse belongings like the .metadata folder and keep only belongings of your project (e.g. sources, resources etc.). Then create a new eclipse project based on you existing project sources).
4.) If Steps 1-3 failed consider reinstalling Eclipse (include above Step 3 in this process again) or switching to a proper IDE that can at least handle its own state.
5.) I experienced rare cases where in the end such things were triggered by me rather than occurred magically out of nowhere by eclipse - I don't see any possibility on how you could manage that in your case unless you messed around with the eclipse source itself).
Hope this helps - Even thus the SO community is big I experienced way better results asking the eclipse developer community directly when it came to such specific issues (you however oftenly get a link to a open Bug ... that they created because of your question) and ended up "just importing into a new eclipse workspace from existing sources" whenever I experienced such issues lately (It takes me about 5 minutes to checkout our sources, start Eclipse with -clean as default and import existing Maven projects solving any eclipse-only issue - while each of those eclipse-issues can take days to be solved without any further advantage for my daily business)
I don't know if this will help any one but I had the same issue. Some links advised me to delete my metadata, which I did not want to do.
What fixed it for me was:
I have multiple eclipse workspaces, I manually closed my eclipse using the System Monitor/Taskbar as it wouldn't let me close as it was hanging.
I switched workspaces and it seems to run fine. So I switched back to the one that was hanging and the problem seemed to have gone.
This worked for me:
Go to to your workspace instalation, and manually delete the target directory under your maven projects (dont worry , maven will create another one when compiling). This removed my stuck Eclipse state (thread) in "Revert sources", always at 0%.
this helped me:
delete files "*.snap" under org.eclipse.core.resources in
worskpace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/
and share project again (setup SVN settings)
I accidentally checked in target files to SVN. And the target files were huge ans hence it was stuck on reverting resources. Once I deleted those target files from SVN this issue never happened.But JBA's answer is pretty comprehensive so I will mark that as a right answer.
I have this same issue, and I just quickly cancel the "Rerverting Resources" task while it's in "waiting" mode when restart Eclipse.
This should work to 100% and helped in my case (no other tried solution worked):
Go to "Eclipse > Help > About Eclipse IDE > Installation Details
Uninstall the following packages "Subclipse", "Subclipse Integration for Mylyn", "Subversion 1.14 JavaHL", "Subversion Revision Graph", "SVN Client Adapter".
pluginsToUninstall
Go to the marketplace and install "subclipse" again.
Rightclick on your project > Team > Refresh/Cleanup
You are welcome. :)
I created a projects group for maven projects. Maven being able to build subprojects, there actually are dozens and dozens of sub-subprojects.
Now I have 405 projects open on Netbeans and I cannot use it anymore because when I start it, the system runs indefinitely trying to perform "opening projects" and eventually running out of memory when it goes in the build phase.
I'd like to start Netbeans again without all those 400+ projects. How to do so?
In case it's needed, I use Netbeans 7.4 on MS-Windows 7.
Edit: a now-deleted answer suggested me to close individually each project. This is not possible as the "close project" action is queued for after the build.
I tried to delete the netbeans folders one by one and succeeded quite early. What I did was delete the whole %APPDATA%\Roaming\NetBeans\7.4\config\Preferences folder, though the precise information of the opened project at startup seems to lie in %APPDATA%\Roaming\NetBeans\7.4\config\Preferences\org\netbeans\modules\projectui.properties.
Update 28 May 2013:
I have found a work around for this. Though this is not always works MOST of the time it does.
In Eclipse > Preferences > General > Startup and Shutdown
uncheck the option "ClearCase Remote Client plug-in"
Every time I start the problem workspace, before doing anything (like click on any resource or click on project in project explorer) I connect to the ClearCase repository.
This seems to calm down the error most of the time. Also, the Eclipse shortcut that I have on my desktop, has -clean option set in it. So when I start the eclipse my eclipse already starts with the clean up option. Though not sure if it has any bearing on the problem.
However not sure if this will help in a situation when I am working offline; when I can not connect to the ClearCase repository.
Update 21 May 2013:
At this time it looks like there is no resolution for this except a CCRC plugin upgrade.
For now marking VonC's answer as correct. Will update the post if I find a better solution.
I created a fresh new workspace and setup the workspace and so far I do not see any problems so far. Still not sure what was wrong with my workspace though.
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I have been having this problem for quite sometime on one of the workspace.
Error:
I am seeing the following error pop up with the error message; and will NOT go away.
An error has occurred. See error log for more details.
Could not initialize class com.ibm.rational.team.client.ui.model.common.ImageManager
Symptoms:
It happens only in one work space almost all the time.
Every time I restart this workspace, when ever I click on any projects in project explorer or any open file, it causes the error pop up to come up.
It goes away if I close all files, close the offending project and then delete the project. I fire up eclipse, re-import the project and the issue goes away only as long as I continue using the eclipse. Once I restart the eclipse the same problem persists.
What I have tried so far:
start eclipse with -clean option --> It does not solve the problem.
I have enabled the "Refresh workspace on startup" option in "Eclipse > Preferences > General > Startup and Shutdown" --> this does not solve theproblem.
I deleted the folder "org.eclipse.core.resources" under "Offending_Workspace > .metadata > .plugins" folder --> this has no effect. The problem persists as mentioned in Symptoms3 above.
System Info:
Windows 7 Enterprise Edition 64 bit.
Eclipse 3.7 Java EE developers
CCRC plugin Version: 7.1.0.0 , Build id: 7.1.1.03.00_2010C.D100803
Is there anything that can be done to resolve this. It's frustrating to work with such a broken plugin, that practically hinders ones work.
Any suggestion will be helpful.
This looks like PM38965 and there is no other solution than upgrading:
A fix is available in ClearCase versions 7.1.1.8, 7.1.2.5 and 8.0.0.1
You can see it listed in this release note:
PM38965:
Addresses a ClearCase issue where the ClearTeam Explorer produces a "Could not initialize class com.ibm.rational.team.client.ui.model.common.ImageManager" error intermittently when performing various operations.
The OP reports a workaround:
In Eclipse > Preferences > General > Startup and Shutdown, uncheck the option "ClearCase Remote Client plug-in"
Every time I start the problem workspace, before doing anything (like click on any resource or click on project in project explorer) I connect to the ClearCase repository.
This seems to calm down the error most of the time.
Also, the Eclipse shortcut that I have on my desktop, has '-clean' option set in it. So when I start the eclipse my eclipse already starts with the clean up option.
Though not sure if it has any bearing on the problem. However not sure if this will help in a situation when I am working offline; when I can not connect to the ClearCase repository.
The '-clean' being a local operation, it will have the same effect offline or online.
I had 100+ files open in the previous session, then closed eclipse. On a restart, eclipse just hangs with extremely high mem usuage. This problem doesn't happen with only 50 files opened.
How to prevent eclipse from loading all the previously opened files on startup? It would make more sense that the files are loaded on demand, i.e. load when focused.
I am using CDT.
When the Eclipse is open, close those projects which you dont want for now. Right Click on the project name and select "Close Project". Next time you restart the Eclipse the closed projects should not get loaded.
This is not possible. Eclipse will always restore the same state after a restart.
You can mitigate the effects with little fuzz by
closing projects (right click the project you're not working on, select Close Project
closing unrelated projects (right click the project you're working on, select Close Unrelated Projects
using Mylyn! Mylyn will ensure that files you stopped working on will be automatically closed. (But it does more than that. See for more info e.g. help.tasktop.com and www.tasktop.com (pdf)) It takes some time getting used to it, but I eventually fell in love with it. If you don't switch tasks that often, you can just create one general task, activate it and keep working in that one forever.
opened a bug on eclipse, after the help from there, it turns out this is caused by the vrapper plugin I installed. For more details, https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=377368
After upgrading to the newest GWT/Google app engine I have problems opening my workspace in Eclipse. On startup, Eclipse hangs almost immediately and needs to be closed. This happens only in the workspace where I use GWT with app engine, and I weren't able to consistently reproduce it - sometimes it starts normally, and sometimes I need to kill the proces and restart it. There is nothing in Eclipse error log. Eclipse version is Galileo, running on Windows 7 RC.
Anyone else had similar problems? I googled but Google is not my friend today.
EDIT: Still happens after upgrading to GWT 2.0.1.
I got frustrated with not being able to open my workspace today, and finally solved this by importing projects into a new clean workspace.
Create new workspace and open it in Eclipse (to create .metadata folder).
Close Eclipse.
Manually copy all settings from old workspace (the most important settings are stored in the .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings directory). Alternatively, you could use File / Export / General / Preferences in Eclipse, and then File / Import them, but I wasn't able to open workspace to do that.
Open the new workspace.
File / Import / General / Existing projects into workspace. Select root folder of your old workspace, and take care to check "Copy project into workspace".
Restart Eclipse and check that everything in the new workspace is working as it should.
Delete your old workspace.
EDIT: Another, and a bit better workaround which apparently works:
Close Eclipse.
Temporary move offending project somewhere out of the workspace.
Start Eclipse, wait for workspace to load (it should).
Close Eclipse again.
Move the project back to workspace.
I used "eclipse -refresh". Apparently it hangs on refresh something, the lower right corner tells you, what it's doing. For me it was refreshing the gwt runtime in a specific project, maybe trying to find an update or something. If you don't want to reimport your whole workspace, try -refresh or move this project temporarily out of the way.
I just deleted the state.dat file in the GWT project metadata, which seemed to remove the blocking and then triggered a recompilation.
<workspace>/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/<GWT project>/org.eclipse.jdt.core/state.dat
This probably won't serve as a general solution, but it worked for me and it's a lot quicker than having to copy whole projects. Maybe another file will have the same effect. I think the trick is just to "damage" the GWT project metadata enough to have it rebuilt.