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Bug 75590

Summary: out of sync plugins in target platform
Product: [Eclipse Project] PDE Reporter: Jeff McAffer <jeffmcaffer>
Component: UIAssignee: PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: bob, curtis.windatt.public, eclipse
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Jeff McAffer CLA 2004-10-04 14:21:27 EDT 
in 3.1m2
at various points during development I seem to get in states where the Target 
Platform prefs page reports that various plugins in my target are "out of 
sync".  Everytime this happens I end up pinging Wassim to find out what that 
means and how to fix it.  while I'm sure he enjoys the interaction, not 
everyone is fortunate enough to have a Wassim.

The difficulty here is that out of sync does not help.  Out of sync with what?  
what is out of sync?  how do I fix it?  I tried "Reload" and that seemed to 
address the out of sync problem but it reset all my check marks. This is 
disappointing since I had lovingly decided which plugins where to be in my 
target.  

Perhaps there should be a resync button, or reload should be more discrete or 
PDE should just auto resync when it sees something that is out of sync.
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2004-11-22 14:53:00 EST 
*** Bug 79132 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Jeff McAffer CLA 2005-01-30 14:11:34 EST 
strangely enough, in i0126 I am getting out of sync Xs  on plugins that are in 
the workspace.  It so unclear a) what exactly is out of sync, b) how I would 
get them in sync and c) what badness is happening (i.e., why I should care 
since things seem to be working ok)
Comment 3 Kim Horne CLA 2005-03-16 13:29:09 EST 
I found that I managed to get into this state after moving my eclipse install
directory... is there anything I can do to fix it or am I going to have to blow
away my workspace?
Comment 4 Kim Horne CLA 2005-03-16 13:34:06 EST 
I deleted my PDE plugin preference store and everything is once again cool.
Comment 5 Wassim Melhem CLA 2005-03-16 14:00:52 EST 
Kim, while you have the same symptom, you may have a different issue..

What exact steps did you do when "I managed to get into this state after 
moving my eclipse install directory"?
Comment 6 Kim Horne CLA 2005-03-16 14:25:08 EST 
I received my new Powerbook today.  The first thing I did was install eclipse. 
After I had it installed and my workspace set up as I like it, I decided that I
didn't want the eclipse folder sitting on my desktop.  I preferred to have it in
my Application folder.  I shut down eclipse and moved my eclipse folder to my
Application folder.  Upon starting eclipse again my workbench was in the
described state - all my target platform plugins were out of sync.
Comment 7 Wassim Melhem CLA 2005-03-16 14:27:02 EST 
ahh, I understand.  I'll open a separate a bug report for this.   
Congratulations on the new purchase, by the way :-)
Comment 8 Curtis Windatt CLA 2008-11-17 10:21:22 EST 
*** Bug 225154 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Curtis Windatt CLA 2009-03-16 11:44:22 EDT 
In the new target platform story, there is a reload button on the preference page.  That button will check is the target platform has any errors or is out of synch with the file system.  If it is found to be out of synch, the user is informed and pressing the OK button on the preference page will fix things.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 266183 ***