Bug 353231 - Cannot launch eclipse when installation folder contains '@' or '!'
Summary: Cannot launch eclipse when installation folder contains '@' or '!'
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 3109
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Runtime (show other bugs)
Version: 4.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
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Assignee: platform-runtime-inbox CLA
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Reported: 2011-07-27 12:47 EDT by Matthew Dickie CLA
Modified: 2011-07-27 13:34 EDT (History)
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Description Matthew Dickie CLA 2011-07-27 12:47:12 EDT 
Build Identifier: I20110613-1736

Eclipse won't run when launched from an installation folder when the path of that folder contains certain characters. I have established '@' and '!' as such characters, there will be others. These characters are valid characters for file paths on Windows (from what I was able to establish only the following are not \/:*?"<>| .
The result is an error dialog giving the command line that was used to launch Eclipse.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download Eclipse 3.7 Classic for Windows (I used 64-bit version)
2. Create a folder called 'abc@' somewhere in your file system
3. Extract the Eclipse .zip file into this folder
4. Try running the installed Eclipse
Comment 1 DJ Houghton CLA 2011-07-27 13:34:56 EDT 
This is a known issue and is covered in the README file that is shipped with the Eclipse SDK.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 3109 ***