[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Cannot Load Visual Editor

[Eric Rizzo <eclipse5@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hal Vaughan wrote:
> Paul Rubin wrote:
>
> > Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > > I finally
> > > wiped out ~/workspace/.metadata and that did it.  I don't know what was
> > > there that made the difference.  It did mean re-creating my projects, but
> > > since I'm still learning and haven't added a ton of settings, and the
> > > projects were all in different directories (and none in ~/workspace), it
> > > was acceptable.
> > Didn't think of that, but other people have reported other breakdowns
> > that were cured by wiping .metadata, so maybe Eclipse occasionally mungs
> > something there (?).
> >
> > Glad you're back up and running.
>
> Thanks.  It's in my "bag of tricks" now.  In the future, if it comes up
> again, I'll search .metadata first and see if I can figure out what could
> be the problem.

Whenever Eclipse has internal errors, the details are logged in 
<workspace>/.metadata/.log - that usually has enough information to 
narrow down the problem, and it certainly can help Googling and posting 
to the newsgroups.

Hope this helps,
	Eric