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Bug 149629

Summary: Need way to save preferences explicitly
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Hacking Bear <cutebear103>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P5 CC: mistria
Version: 3.2Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description Hacking Bear CLA 2006-07-05 02:42:18 EDT 
It seems Eclipse only save preferences when it exits. The problem is that Eclipse may have crashed. :-( 

This especially true when I import a number of new projects which typically causing Eclipse to do a full rebuild and that in term causing Out of Memory error easily.
Comment 1 Jerome Lanneluc CLA 2006-07-05 04:26:35 EDT 
Moving to Platform UI
Comment 2 Paul Webster CLA 2006-07-05 07:40:52 EDT 
Use File>Export...>Preferences to export to a file, and File>Import...>Preferences to import into a new workspace.

PW
Comment 3 Mickael Istria CLA 2016-03-28 11:44:30 EDT 
Doesn't the Apply button on Preference page do that? I tried to set a preference, press Apply, then kill Eclipse IDE, restart; and preferences seem to have been persisted.

If so, what's the best way to handle this outdated report? Put WORKSFORME with Target Milestone set to oldest version known to have the fix?
Comment 4 Eclipse Genie CLA 2020-03-21 19:24:56 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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