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Bug 332564

Summary: Eclipse workspace state only saved on successful close of Eclipse
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Jay Alameda <jalameda>
Component: IDEAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: jalameda, remy.suen
Version: 4.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Jay Alameda CLA 2010-12-14 14:15:06 EST 
Build Identifier: 20100917-0705

It appears that the only way to fully save the state of an Eclipse workspace is to successfully close Eclipse (or to switch workspaces, which forces a restart of Eclipse).  This causes problems when something goes wrong with Eclipse, and Eclipse either has to be forced to close or Eclipse crashes - and the workspace comes back either in an earlier state, or broken altogether.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use Eclipse, with a workspace
2.Have something terrible go wrong with Eclipse, forcing a crash.
3.restart Eclipse and observe the state of the workspace against the earlier workspace state.
Comment 1 Remy Suen CLA 2010-12-14 14:24:59 EST 
You're talking about how the _layout_ of the workbench is not preserved after the crash, correct?
Comment 2 Oleg Besedin CLA 2010-12-14 14:26:58 EST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2369 ***