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Please add the the following option (checkbox) under "Preferences->General->Startup and Shutdown": "Restore Package/Project Explorer on Startup" which restores the tree expansion set. Actually, it is a pain to search and unfold each directory to restore it to the state before I did restart eclipse. If "eclipse startup time" increases with checked option, I will tolerate that, because: Actually "my startup time" to continue working on a set of projects increases very much, because I must handle these directory searching and tree expansions manually - this is really not user friendly. Please add this option: "Restore Package/Project Explorer on Startup" Thank you!
Created attachment 278648 [details] Link with Editor already does that Keeping the expansion tree is a complex problem with several unknowns. For example: you cannot guarantee that all files and folders are still in the same position as when you closed the IDE. Usually, in Eclipse you focus on files, and you can use the "Link with Editor" option to display the location of a file in the project tree. Plus, when you close and reopen Eclipse, you will see all the open editors that you were working on. So, instead of opening the Explorer tree in the same state, you can simply (1) activate the "Link with Editor" and (2) click on one of the editors that were open, and then (3) you automatically see that file in its position in the project tree. (See attached image) Besides, if you want to navigate files and you remember the names, you can do this very quickly with shortcuts, i.e.: CTRL+E : Filter among open editors CTRL+SHIFT+R: Find a file in all the project tree. Bottom line, I guess we wont implement the feature "Restore Package/Project Explorer on Startup", as we can more simply use the "Link With Editor" and filter resources.
shortcuts in Mac: CMD+E : Filter among open editors CMD+SHIFT+R: Find any resource in the project tree
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 130083 ***
