Eclipse Periodic workspace save has encountered a pro blem

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I m using Eclipse Indigo on Mac 10 7 4   While working  I get these periodic  annoying dialogs   Periodic workspace save   has encountered a problem   Could not write metadata for    org eclipse jdt core external folders    Users davea Dropbox workspace  metadata  plugins org eclipse core resources  projects  org eclipse jdt core external folders  markers snap  No such file or directory    I seem to be able to continue as normal  but I was wondering how I can eliminate these errors

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Agree with  J-Dizzle   I am a beginner in web-development and had a hard time solving this today   Had similar problems when I was creating a SpringBoot project in STS   Tried most of the solutions mentioned but they didn t work   Tried removing  metadata folder and re-building my springboot project but still nothing worked      NOTE   I had multiple workspace in STS and this error occurred after migrating a project from one workspace to another    Solution   All you need to do is restart your eclipse STS IDE and it will work just fine

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I ran into this problem today after they switched our anti-virus software to Kaspersky  In my case  the platform is Windows 7  My workspace is stored on mapped network drive   The strange thing is that  even though this appears to be a permission issue  I could manipulate files and folders at the same level as the inaccessible file without incident   So far  the only two workarounds are to move the workspace to the local drive or to uninstall Kaspersky  Removing and re-installing Kaspersky without the firewall feature did not do the trick     I will update this answer if and when we find a more accommodating solution  though I expect that will involve adjusting the anti-virus software  not Eclipse

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I solved the problem switching the workspace    Go to File  Switch workspace  Select the destination and create a folder named Workspace  Run a Hello World and close Eclipse  notice that Eclipse creates the folder RemoteSystemsTempFiles automatically  now copy all your projects into the new folder Workspace Open Eclipse and if necessary  sometimes Eclipse does not show the projects  import all of them  go to File  Open projects from File System

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After you exit the eclipse  there would be an specific failed reason   Mine is that the DISK IS FULL so the eclipse can t write into it anymore

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I fixed mine by closing eclipse and deleting the whole  metadata folder inside my workspace folder

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Today I faced the same issue consistently  whenever I exit the eclipse   While trying the above solution provided by TS xy  the below steps got rid of this issue for now    Switch to new workspace and close the Eclipse   Open the Eclipse with new workspace and after that switch to the actual workspace in which exception occurs   Actual workspace loaded with all my previous projects   Now exiting the Eclipse  does not result in that exception    Hope that this step may work for someone

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I had the same problem       Periodic workspace save   has encountered a problem           Could not write metadata for   External Files   D  java fuentes  metadata  plugins org eclipse core resources  projects External   Files  markers snap  El sistema no puede hallar la ruta especificada    I created the folder  External Files  and it worked fine  In a few minutes the files   markers snap  and   syncinfo snap  appeared in this folder and the message didn  t appear any more

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I have the same problem since yesterday  Yesterday  I fixed it by creating a new workspace and reimporting the projects  It seemed to work well  but today it started again   So  today I created the folder and the file manually and gave the full permissions -rwxrwxrwx   Seems to work again

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Just for another data point  none of the above helped my situation   The way I finally got past this issue is that each time Eclipse complained about some folder not being there  I went on my hard drive and created the folder   E g  after I see  Could not write metadata for   servers   C       metadata  plugins org eclipse core resources  projects servers  markers snap  The system cannot find the path specified     I create the  servers  folder  not the file inside it    This gets me to the next error   I went through 3-4 of these iterations  exiting Eclipse each time to force the save  before the issues went away   HTH  Mark

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This was simple for me -  Solution    pre  the listed directory is not present  see pic Run Eclipse  see the error shown in pic below  Close Eclipse Create the directory  RemoteSystemsTempFiles  where it is looking   note  ignore the items in this folder  e g   markers   they are auto-generated  Restart Eclipse  problem solved    Example Problem Message    Not sure why this took me so long to resolve  but quite easy now  and quite obvious in retrospect

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Solved it by setting workspace on a local folder  and set data from import project  from existing resources

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The solution that work for me is the following    Delete  metadata folder Restart eclipse

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This happened to me because i deleted one of the resources files inside the  metadata folder in my workspace   After trying all methods  deleting the  metadata folder in my workspace worked    Infact  this nuke option seems to work when there are a lot of issues related to eclipse bugs  One such example is working-sets  Working-sets are extremely buggy but useful  and it is there that most of my eclipse problems start   Hope this helps someone

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I also ran into this problem   My situation was a little different   I was using  working sets  to group my projects inside of eclipse   What I had done was attempt to delete a project and received errors while deleting   Ignoring the errors I removed the project from my working set and thus didn t see that I even had the project anymore   When I received my error I didn t think to look through my package explorer with  projects   opposed to working sets  as my top view   After switching to a top level view of projects I found the project that was half deleted and was able to delete its contents from both my workspace and the hard drive   I haven t had the error since

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Using Ubuntu  got the same issue I noticed that the owner of some of the directories in    workspace  metadata  plugins     etc    was root changed owner to me and the error stopped happening   Looks like the same sort of issue may be caused by multiple causes

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Close the Eclipse   Clear the  metadata folder completely   Start Eclipse  amp  Import the necessary project once again if your project references are deleted

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In my case  because I ve accidentally deleted my workspace folder  and I observed the  Periodic workspace save has encountered a problem   To solve this issue  I just simply create a new workspace and load all my projects to the new one  Hope you can solve your problem by doing the same thing

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I had gotten a little too aggressive about removing some directories in my project area when I was running out of disk space  and deleted this directory  Eclipse can leave some huge core files if it crashes in your workspace directories   I had 35 gig of them  so it s worth taking a look there in your workspaces occasionally    Anyway  as per the problem I tried the  create a directory  approach  And it worked    I was also seeing this error when I closed Eclipse by the way  not only after the  periodic save   So the exit restart was also part of this    Note that the last item on the directory path specified in the error message is a file -- not a directory  so don t get confused here  Probably worth checking that the directory permissions are created correctly as well  as the other projects in the workspace I think    Obviously this is a bug in the Eclipse code base   creating the full directory path under the file that is being created   but had I not deleted it in the first place  I would not have caused it in the first place

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Close Eclipse  Open RemoteSystemsTempFiles folder in Workspace  and clear inside this folder  Again open eclipse and close  warn about  project  Press Ok  then open Eclipse   Solved my problem that

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I encountered the same problem   my resolution was to rename the the folder name under the workspace folder  i e   com ibm collaboration realtime alertmanager embedded was renamed to com ibm collaboration realtime alertmanager 2embeddedxx and rebuilt my project

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In my case  the drive I was storing my workspace on had become full downloading SDK updates full and I just needed to clear some space on it

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