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Bug 36763

Summary: Eclipse should use user's home-folder instead of the eclipse-directory for files like .metadata
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Jörn Huxhorn <joern.huxhorn>
Component: ResourcesAssignee: Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 2.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Macintosh   
OS: Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)   
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Description Jörn Huxhorn CLA 2003-04-22 13:32:07 EDT 
The summary says it all. At least on Mac OS X eclipse crashes on startup because
it tries to write the file .metadata into the eclipse-home-folder. The
eclipse-folder, however, will be most likely not writeable by the user. You
should instead use the proper location of application-data for the OS running
Eclipse.
That would be "%HOME%\Application Data\Eclipse" for Win NT/2K/XP and
"~/Library/Application Support/Eclipse" for Mac OS X.

I don't know if this problem exists on Windows, too, since I did not try Eclipse
on Windows yet.
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2003-04-22 14:27:16 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26756 ***