Recipe 1.14 Recovering from Total Disaster
1.14.1 Problem
Your installation of Eclipse has become
hopelessly fouled up.
1.14.2 Solution
Just save any of the projects from the workspace
directory that you want to retain, delete the decompressed
files and directories, and unzip or untar the Eclipse download again.
After replacing the saved projects in the workspace
directory (omitting any suspect projects that might have
caused the problem in the first place), you're set.
1.14.3 Discussion
One reason people like Eclipse is because they have control over the
(re)installation process. This is in stark contrast to other IDEs,
some of which are massive and do so many things behind the scenes
that you can never trust them.
Note that you also can migrate projects from one version of Eclipse
to another simply by copying project folders into the new
version's workspace directory.
This doesn't always work with major revisions of
Eclipse, but with minor revisions, it works like a charm.
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Eclipse doesn't install itself using the Windows
installer, so there's no need to use the Windows
control panel's Add/Remove Programs entry to manage
Eclipse installation.
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