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Eclipse issue on startup

When i got in this morning and started my system i got the following error on opening eclispe.
"Could not launch the product because the associated workspace is currently in use."

I restarted and then search the net for answers and foung on ethat said to do a file > import and then import from an existing project but thi sdid not work.

any ideas?

Willa

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CEHJ

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hoomanv

Eclipse terminated incorrectly and left a lock file. It is H:EclipseWorkspace.metadata.lock. Delete that file and Eclipse will start working again. You should still have your work. If that doesn't work, delete the entire .metadata folder. In this case, Eclipse will loose the knowledge of what projects you had in the workspace. You will have to import the project with

File > Import > Existing Projects into Workspace > Next

Then browse to H:EclipseWorkspace and select the projects you want to have in your workspace.

hoomanv

as CEHJ had said before

willa666

ASKER

Hi CEHJ

I have a folder in the root of my workspace called .metadata and their is a .lock file in their but their are no other files inside the project files.

W

CEHJ

Delete that first and then we can think about restoring

willa666

ASKER

OK so that did not work, What i am trying now is recreating the project from scratch.

I commited my changes last night so by droppingthe whole project and pulling a fresh copy into a new directory and creating the project again i should be good.

what else where you guys going to sudjest ?

CEHJ

You might like to look in the .log file to see what happened

Mayank S

>> do a file > import and then import from an existing project but thi sdid not work.

Meaning were you able to do at least some of that? What exactly?

Mick Barry

Yes that should solve your problems, are you still having any issues with it?

CEHJ

:-)