Bug 520753

Summary:	add a function to clean workspace from "unsaved changes in the previous session" that are corrupted
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Ralf Hauser <hauser>
Component:	Resources	Assignee:	Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=520746
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Description Ralf Hauser

2017-08-09 09:08:13 EDT

While trying to recover from Bug 520746 , upon startup of the latest eclipse, I created a dummy new workspace directory and chose this one.

Finally, eclipse started.

Unfortunately, as soon as I went to "File - Switch Workspace", it immediately died again

Comment 1 Ralf Hauser

2017-08-09 09:31:05 EDT

it seems that as per
http://www.lazylab.org/197/eclipse/eclipse-hanging-on-startup-repair-corrupt-workspace/

~/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources$ ls -lart
total 788
drwxr-xr-x 258 hauser hauser   4096 Apr 29  2008 .history
-rw-r--r--   1 hauser hauser 240910 May  9  2009 .snap~
drwxr-xr-x  93 hauser hauser   4096 Nov 25  2016 ..
drwxr-xr-x  86 hauser hauser   4096 Aug  8 19:38 .projects
drwxr-xr-x   2 hauser hauser   4096 Aug  9 12:27 .safetable
drwxr-xr-x   6 hauser hauser   4096 Aug  9 12:29 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 hauser hauser   4096 Aug  9 12:29 .root
-rw-r--r--   1 hauser hauser 539997 Aug  9 13:28 686.snap
hauser@armin2:~/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources$ mv 686.snap disabled.686.snap

==> renaming the .snap, solved it!