My friend and I are working as a team on a project through Dropbox. Previously I have used Eclipse and Eclipse would automatically update the files in view. Unfortunately every time we make a new change IntelliJ says this:
We then have to press Yes which then closes all of our tabs and is very annoying. Is there a way to disable this in IntelliJ? (We want it to work functionally equivalent to Eclipse if possible!)
I think this problem is caused not by changes in actual code files, but IDEA's configuration files, those that are in the .idea/ folder inside your project.
One way to resolve this would be to use Selective Sync to stop syncing configuration folder.
You can use the shortcut below to synchronize the classes.
ctrl + alt + y
And also check your intellij settings by navigating through HotSwap in File > Settings and then select Reload classes in background also you can use the shortcut as below to refresh.
ctrl + F5
I would suggest to stop using dropbox. Using git is a much better solution for collaboration, and there are free git services. There are even some that allow free private repos for smaller teams. IDE project files should generally not be part of your source code.
Also, there are additional benefits to using proper source code controls, such auditing and history, merging, and so much more.
I am running Windows XP and Eclipse 4.2.2 Build id: M20130204-1200 and I have lost my Debug and Launch tool bars. I have tried Windows>Reset Perspective (original values) and Window>Customize Perspective's (Tool Bar Visibility and Command Groups Availability) tab options. I have tried the Layout option on Debug view. All failed to bring them back. Right now, I am looking at Tool Bar Visibility tab and a message that says: <"Debug" cannot be made available because it is in the unavailable "null" command group.> However, the Debug checkbox in Command Group Availability is checked.
I have also tried right-click and Reset on the perspective buttons.
Switching to another eclipse installation (same machine) did not help either.
Rebooting does not help.
Are there any text configuration files where this data is stored that can be manipulated outside eclipse?
I had this problem in Eclipse Kepler, it turns out it was caused by PyDev plugin. I fixed it by uninstalling the plugin and right-clicking on the Debug perspective button and selecting Reset.
I had already installed a fresh copy and the problems persisted. But, encouraged by user714965 comments, I tried again but that did not resolve the issue. Then, I threw away all eclipse installation folders (to recycle bin), re-installed fresh copy, and the problem persisted. Then I started a new workspace, and it seemed like the tool bars were back. Then restored previous eclipse installations and they had the Debug toolbar as well!
I am thinking somehow the customization config files were broken. It would be nice to know where the these files are stored (my original question): Are they global for each user on the machine or are they workspace specific? It seems to me that some customizations are global, while others are project specific.
May be it is time to try the new Android Studio :-)
Seems as your eclipse is broken. The fastest way to get it back running will be downloading a fresh copy from eclipse.org. You can continue using your current workspace so your settings will remain. But you have to re-install all plug-ins... I'm always keeping a backup of a fresh release with the plug-ins I'm using. I would suggest you to do the same in the future.
It seems like all my projects (except one) disappeared from the view Project Explorer.
I'm using Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers.
Version: Helios Service Release 2
Build id: 20110218-0911
Note: all the projects are present on the file system.
How to bring them back? Any ideas?
This happened to me. I'm still not sure how, but the reason was that my workspace meta data had become corrupted, probably due to Eclipse being improperly shutdown. The solution, as explained here, is to:
Note, steps 2 & 3 are optional if Eclipse isn't crashing, but just not showing any projects.
Close Eclipse.
cd /home/user/workspace/.metadata/.plugins
mv org.eclipse.core.resources org.eclipse.core.resources_bak
Start Eclipse
Do File->Import
General->Existing Projects into Workspace
Click the "Select root directory" field and browse to each subfolder in your workspace folder, and import.
For me, this was very tedious, since I had several dozen projects in my workspace, but it's the only solution I found short of restoring my entire workspace from a backup.
Edit: This answer is now quite old, and better solutions may now exist. Although I haven't had need to try it, I recommend attempting #antonagestam's solution first, as others have suggested it may be faster and more effective.
Edit: Since it's fairly simple, I'd recommend trying antonagestam's solution first. However, this problem recently re-occurred for me, and that solution did not work in my case. But neither did it interfere with this solution.
I had the same problem in Aptana, all of a sudden my projects were gone. Solved it by going to the drop-down menu in Project Explorer and going Top Level Elements -> Projects.
Go to
File --> Import --> General --> Existing Project into Workspace
Then,
In Root Directory Enter the workspace path where all your projects saved & click refresh as below
And Click Finish
I was having the same problem for Android projects in Eclipse. This link was very helpful in restoring the missing projects.
Go to 'File->Import->General->From Existing Project'.
Select the root folder to the Workspace.
Click on the 'Refresh' button.
Select the required projects and click 'Finish' button.
I had the same problem in Luna, Suddenly my projects were gone in start-up.
I solved this by select Deselect working set option in the drop-down menu in Project Explorer.
Note: I post this answer even this is not a right answer for this question.
Since I search for Luna and came here,while trying with discussed things I was find this solution. This may help others.
Click on Windows > Open Perspectives > java
, Press Ok. Project Explore will come back on screen..
My solution is
open view menu and select "Top Level Elements" and set "Projects"
If any of the previous methods don't work for you then delete your old workspace, create a new workspace and put it by default. You can do this by launching Eclipse twice - the second time it asks you for the workspace ;). Then re-import all your projects there and say "problem, goodbye".
Mona is correct - Make sure that you have the task list set to show ALL as the image shows. Click the arrow to the left of the project if you want to re-factor your filter. Reset your perspective if you do not see the task list.
Today 22-03-2016, I check again this question and using ECLIPSE MARS I solved with:
Having Eclipse opened, go on FILE -> RESTART
Go on same workspace and I have all project on "PROJECT EXPLORER"
Sometime also this operation, will solve (Clicking on Projects dor see all project!!)
So Other solution is:
if you use the "Task List" view of Eclipse, it will sometimes try to hide files or projects that it thinks are not associated with a given task (i.e. any file that was not opened while you had a certain task selected as the current task). If you want Eclipse to stop hiding files
in that case, you can just delete all tasks.
Or you may also restart your eclipse and by just closing the project and then opening it again (from the right mouse click context menu) the files will be restored.
If that doesnt get your projects back then check the "filters option" (Click on right corner of Project Explorer tab and open context menu. Select Filters option from menu) and make sure that your projects type isnt checked.
you should check the active Working Set - make sure it is off.
When this happened to me I had somehow set the Project Explorer to only display Working Sets. I had none, so nothing was displayed.
To fix it, I went to the Project Explorer View Menu (next to the Minimize and Maximize icons in the Project Explorer), Top Level Elements -> Projects.
Thanks to #antonagestam for pointing me in the right direction.
It seems it happens to us all. I was happily hacking away at javascript, nowhere near all the nasty hibernate java stuff, and boom, "cant find org.jboss.logging.BasicLoging".
I havent touched anything!.
After an hour or so of trying to make that appear, restarting servers, mysql, eclipse, adding jars that weren't needed before,I deployed the fix all solution, the off button.
Then zap, no project.
(I am still none the wiser as to why calling Configuration() should now require jboss-logging...jar, maybe I needed it all along for when bad things happen)
My input is
use git, keep as little of your stuff in the eclipse workspace area as possible. Then just import project from existing git repo when eclipse loses it's marbles.
I also lost my server config. it's there but eclipse insists there no server config stuff and bombs. So make another one, I've expressed my feelings about eclipse in my new server name, and copy your apache xml configs (workspace/Servers/I_Love_Eclipse) over from the original perfectly good directory.
Not sure how/why, but this happened to me once when I added a task to Mylyn. Seemed that mylyn was filtering my projects. When I deleted the task they all came back.
None of the answers provided here worked for me. My Enterprise Explorer was completely grey and I couldn't even import or reimport projects.
In my .metadata.log I saw this error:
assertion failed: working set with same name already registered
So I deleted these file:
.metadata.plugins\org.eclipse.ui.workbench\workingsets.xml
Now I can see all my projects. I didn't have to add them back again.
I found a solution that worked better for me. Under my home folder I found a workspace/.metadata folder. I copied this folder into my eclipse workspace, replacing the .metadata folder that had been there. When I started Eclipse everything was back to the way I had left it - all projects present, all open files were still open, etc. Just like nothing had happened! I'm using Neon.
As a preliminary (before reimporting everything), here is a solution to recover working sets in which project were (if any).
I had more than 100 projects and each was in one of 14 working sets.
If your top level elements changes (accidentaly or not if it is a bug) from "Working set" to "Projects", you only see projects that are NOT in a working set, and if, as I do, you don't have any projects outside a working set, you think all is lost because you cannot see anything (blank package explorer).
So the solution is now obvious: click on the top left small white triangle MENU, than select "Top level elements", than select "Working sets".
You also have the possibility to rearrange the working sets list items.
Hope it helps
Unfortunatly the working sets were empty after the recovery, but at least I
recovered their names.
Config: Eclipse Oxygen.2 Release (4.7.2) with Java 1.8 on Windows 10.
Got this issue on returning to an Eclipse project on a VM after leaving it untouched for maybe a couple of weeks.
I started to apply the accepted answer, but when I got to the step of renaming the folder and had exited Eclipse, I saw there was an instance of Eclipse still running. I realized Windows had for some reason started a second instance of Eclipse when I hit the taskbar button. The second instance had been unable to access the workspace while the first instance was using it.
Once I undid my folder rename, and closed and restarted the original instance of Eclipse, I was able to use File->Switch Workspace to get my normal workspace back.
Solution that Cerin provide, importing each time that this problem happens, could be boring.
So I've implemented a script that control if workspace setting exits: if not, restore it to default.
I have an eclipse shortcut icon on the top panel that execute:
/opt/eclipse/checkWorkspace && /opt/eclipse/eclipse
Script checkWorkspace is the seguent:
#!/bin/bash
ECLIPSE_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/eclipse/configuration"
ECLIPSE_CONFIG_FILE="config.ini"
ECLIPSE_CONFIG_SETTING="osgi.instance.area.default"
DEFAULT_WORKSPACE_PATH="#user.home/workspace"
ECLIPSE_LOG="/var/log/eclipse.log"
cd ${ECLIPSE_CONFIG_PATH}
function sedeasy {
sed -i "s/$(echo $1 | sed -e 's/\([[\/.*]\|\]\)/\\&/g')/$(echo $2 | sed -e 's/[\/&]/\\&/g')/g" $3
}
WORKSPACE_EXISTS=$(cat ${ECLIPSE_CONFIG_FILE} | grep ${ECLIPSE_CONFIG_SETTING})
# If workspace setting doesn't exists
if [ -z "$WORKSPACE_EXISTS" ]; then
echo "worskspace setting not exists, resetting to default." >> ${ECLIPSE_LOG}
newConf=${ECLIPSE_CONFIG_SETTING}"="${DEFAULT_WORKSPACE_PATH}
echo ${newConf} >> ${ECLIPSE_CONFIG_FILE}
else
# if setting exist but it is empty
vals=(${WORKSPACE_EXISTS//=/ })
length=$(echo ${#vals[#]})
if [ "${length}" -lt 2 ]; then
newConf=${ECLIPSE_CONFIG_SETTING}"="${DEFAULT_WORKSPACE_PATH}
confToReplace=$(echo ${vals[0]})
sedeasy ${confToReplace} ${newConf} ${ECLIPSE_CONFIG_FILE}
echo "worskspace exists but is empty, resetting to default." >> ${ECLIPSE_LOG}
else
echo "Worskspace already set:" "${vals[1]}"
fi
fi
Maybe could be semplified, but works.
I tried many solutions. I found mine in the drop down menu of the Entreprise Explorer:
- Deleting org.eclipse.core.resources has no effect.
- "Top Level Elements -> Projects" was already checked for me; swtiching with Documents has no effect.
- Selecting all extensions in the filter option of the drop down menu has no effect at first sight, maybe it solve part of the problem.
The solution come from "Unselecting documents" (third choice in the Entreprise Explorer drop down menu). I think that choice reset the filtering of documents displayed in the Explorer.
Hope it'll helps
JN Gerbaux
Tedious but it worked for me (Kepler):
Using the OS zip utility, zip everything below the project workspace folder to a zip file, to be placed in a separate directory (will use c:\tmp\workspace.zip as an example).
Unzip workspace.zip to the c:\tmp directory. Assume there's a project folder called Project1
a. Ensure all the files in Project1 have Full Control permissions for Everyone or at least 777 permissions.
Remove all the project folders in the Eclipse workspace.
Recreate each project one by one according to its original type (Java, Dynamic Web, etc.). (Will use Project1 as an example.) Do not add anything.
In Eclipse, do File -> Import -> File System. Then select c:\tmp\Project1 as a source
Select the workspace Project1 as a destination. Do not overwrite any file.
In Eclipse, refresh the project and test it. It should work.
Also had this Problem.
My Solution was to uncheck the Box PyDev: Closed Projects, even if those hidden Projects are PHP and NOT Python Projects. (Strange BUG in Eclipse/Aptana???)
Be aware that even "Closed Projects" (a Topic above Pydev closed projects) is also unchecked. So you have to uncheck both Settings.
this: eclipse shows only "open projects" in project explorer
All of my projects were closed and I had hid the closed projects in the settings.
So to open projects go to top right view menu, and uncheck Closed Projects option. Assuming it is checked already.
Do the following steps
File --> Import --> Existing Projects into Workspace
Select the root directory as ur old root folder
Finish.
Yahoo.. There is ur old projects again in ur project explorer
1) File > import > Existing projects into workspace
2) Choose your workspace folder
3) select all of your projects
4) finish
All are OK with above way !!!
File - Import - Existing projects into workspace - browse - choose your workspase - done!
If Eclipse was killed during a shutdown, the projects database may become corrupted (the project database is normally located in: workspace/.metadata/org.eclipse.core.resources/.root/1.tree).
A message like this will be logged in Workspace/.metadata/.log:
!MESSAGE Could not read metadata for '.../.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.root/.markers'.
The data is lost. You need to import your projects again (File->Import ->
General->Existing Projects into Workspace).
The list of projects that were in the workspace can still be seen in .metadata/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/.
Projects located outside the workspace will have a .location file with the path to the project.
I also had the same problem.
file>restart.
Projects and modules appeared after restarting the eclipse, but faced new error;
An internal error occurred during: "AppXray Indexing...". java.lang.NullPointerException.
So it's good to be on safe side, import the project again in a new workspace.
if you go to Quick Access and type in Projects you will get it your projects back.
Eclipse (3.4.2 with PyDev) deals with out-of-sync resources (files that have been edited outside of the IDE) differently from other IDEs that I've used, where only resources with editors open are considered out-of-sync. In Eclipse, any resource can go out of sync.
This means that when I perform a search after any file has changed outside of Eclipse, I get an error dialog telling me that files are out of sync, even if they have no open editors. As far as I can tell, there is no global refresh command, so I'm forced to read the project names (I have several projects) in the error dialog, and do a right-click + refresh for each of them.
I've checked the Refresh Automatically setting in Settings > General > Workspace, but this has no effect. Is there any way to get Eclipse to always just load non-active resources from disk?
This issue will be fixed in Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo). While "Refresh Automatically" does eventually bring resources back into sync, the refresh hook only exists for Windows, so on Linux and Mac OS it has to poll the filesystem periodically.
From 3.7 there's a new preference Settings > General > Workspace > Refresh On Access (aka Lightweight Refresh). This preference causes Eclipse to automatically refresh resources when it discovers that they're 'out-of-sync'. When opening, reading or searching files, it'll prevent out-of-sync errors from occurring.
See also: https://bugs.eclipse.org/303517
I think if you click on the project node in the Project Explorer and press F5 or right click and select Refresh, all resources for that project will be refreshed. Also, if you CTRL+click on multiple projects, you should be able to refresh multiple projects at the same time.
A single click on a project, a CTRL+A to select everything, and an F5 should do exactly what you need - refresh everything.
I'll have to test this when I get the chance, but I believe this is how I overcame similar problems in the past.
I've noticed that this answer routinely is getting down voted. I'd like to point out that the question refers to a specific version of Eclipse: 3.4.2. There was actually no automatic method to refresh out-of-sync resources until version 3.7 Indigo of Eclipse, as mentioned in James Blackburn's answer. The method described in this answer is the only method to achieve this in version 3.4.2 (and any other version before 3.7 Indigo).
Out of synchronization problem is common in eclipse IDE so you have to check this option windows -> preference -> Workspace -> refresh using native hooks or polling.
Eclipse Helios possesses a built in refresh feature at Preferences > General > Workspace. It's in the same spot where you disable automatic builds. Select refresh automatically. A plugin with the same functionality is Andrei Loskutov's Filesync Plugin. The update site address is: http://andrei.gmxhome.de/eclipse/. During installation, select Eclipse 3.5-3.7 plugins > FileSync.
Given that Java 7 has an api for filesystem hooks, one would think that refresh could be handled better in Eclipse.
Edit: Actually, there is a plugin that uses this mechanism: https://github.com/psxpaul/EclipseJava7Refresher
There is a global refresh - have nothing (or everything) selected in the package explorer and press F5 (or right-click on empty space and select Refresh). Of course, this could take rather long if you have large projects.
The global refresh actually exists in plain Eclipse without any plugins and without selecting every project in your workspace.
Basically you need to deselect everything in your project explorer and hit F5. To do that Ctrl+click the selected resource in the project explorer and hit F5.
A global refresh is really missing in Eclipse. The above procedure with selecting all projects and then running refresh (e.g. F5) does not work if you have closed projects included in your selection. This means, if you have 1/2 of your many projects closed as I do, you find yourself manually Ctrl-clicking through your dozens of projects. This is quite painful. I wish Eclipse would simply ignore closed projects.
Perhaps you should add a feature request on the eclipse site:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/
I think it would be a great idea to add a preference for automatically refreshing out of date resources.
Yes, Refresh on Access is long overdue ... those answers to this and similar enquires usually suggested enabling the global auto-refresh, which could take an age for large remote projects.
In fact there are those who would say that Refresh on Access should have been the original (< 3.x) default behaviour ...
I managed to solve this by creating a new "external tool" run config that executes a blank batch file. In the run config, you can have it refresh the workspace when complete. Then I created a macro using Practically Macro that 1) executes the last external tool run config (refreshing the workspace), then 2) executes the last debug run config (running my app). If you uncheck "Allocate console" then the completed external tool entry won't show up in the debug window.
Even if the solutions proposed by others perso are indeed correct, you have a "Refresh All" plugin for Eclipse. Simply add the Update page to your Eclipse list of update sites to install it in your IDE.
For Starting up there is an option to automatically refresh files in
Window -> Preferences -> General -> Startup and Shutdown -> Refresh workspace on startup
Click it in order to have a "fresh" start in eclipse. :)
Version: Eclipse 4.12