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Bug 28936

Summary: Blowing away ~/workspace/ destroys project config
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Ben Bucksch <linux.news>
Component: ResourcesAssignee: Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 2.0.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Ben Bucksch CLA 2003-01-01 03:55:44 EST 
Eclipse created a ~/workspace/ directory. I really dislike that, because the
home dir (excluding dotfiles there) is IMHO my personal space and to be managed
manually by me, for the files I use myself.
There were no files in that dir that I needed/edited myself (no C++ source
etc.), so I blew it away. I thought it were just the default path for projects.
I lost all my project settings by that action.

Please store all app-global settings (preferences and path to project settings)
in ~/.eclipse/ and all project settings in the project directory I specified
wduring creation of the individual projects. You may offer
~/workspace/<projectname> as default project dir, but create ~/workspace/ only
as needed.

A short-term workaround would be to make the dir configurable.
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2003-01-02 14:15:16 EST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26756 ***
Comment 2 Ben Bucksch CLA 2003-01-02 14:24:59 EST 
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