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I've had two frustrating experiences with files unpredictably being erased from the workspace. In both cases they are erased entirely, not just removed to the trash. In one case the file was a java file outside of the project. When I deleted the project, I expected it to delete only files in the project, but this other java file was erased, too. In the second case, I had a .txt file that I created within Eclipse as part of a project. I experimented with using an alias to another folder in order to locate the workspace within my user folder, where I would know to back it up. Eclipse didn't like this, so I moved the workspace folder back & removed the alias. However, somewhere in this process eclipse re-built its understanding of the project, and entirely deleted this text file, My java files were fine.
I am not sure what the proper component this for, so please re-route it there is a better choice.
If you want to place your workspace into your user folder, you can do so by editing the command line arguments passed to Eclipse. Here is how: - shutdown Eclipse - select the Eclipse application in Finder - from the context menu do a "Show Package Contents" - open the "Contents" folder - open the Info.plist file with your favorite text editor - edit the line: <string>-data</string><string>workspace</string> to <string>-data</string><string>~/workspace</string> (or any other Unix-style path) - if you already have a workspace inside Eclipse, move it to your home folder - start Eclipse
Eclipse deletion used to traverse symbolic links, but it no longer does. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44106 ***
