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Bug 332597

Summary:	Add option to clean all projects with errors
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Sam Davis <sam.davis>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, deepakazad
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
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Description Sam Davis

2010-12-15 01:48:24 EST

It would be useful to have an option to clean all projects with errors. I have 300+ projects in my workspace and often I'll have around 50 that need cleaning (e.g. if Eclipse crashes), but I have to resort to cleaning all projects because manually selecting only the 50 with errors would be too painful. This means I'm waiting 6 times as long as I should have to.

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2010-12-15 04:22:37 EST

You can already do that with one additional step:

1. select all errors in the Problems view
2. context menu > Show In > Package (or Project) Explorer
3. Project > Clean...

Comment 2 Sam Davis

2010-12-15 11:43:07 EST

Thanks, that's a neat trick and I'll use it from now on, but I suspect that the percentage of users who have discovered that is pretty low, so I still think an option to do this explicity in the clean dialog would be helpful.