[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Why does Eclipse track file state between invoc

[jamsden@xxxxxxxxxx]

Eclipse doesn't track file state when it is not running, but the meta-data 
maintained on resources for the purposes of change management is persisted 
by Eclipse. When you change a resource outside the platform (that is, 
Eclipse doesn't save the resource), the meta-data isn't updated and 
therefore gets out of sync with the OS data-time stamp on the file. As 
you've seen, this happens whether the Eclipse platform is running or not. 
So in either case, you need to refresh from local.