Eclipse - Workspace in use or cannot be created chose a different one

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I m trying to create a workspace in the  Users Shared  directory with the thought that I can share that workspace between users  The problem is that after I create the workspace and change the permission on it  I encounter the error below  image  without even switching to a different user   I changed the permissions from    Users Shared   ll drwxr-xr-x  3 HristoOskov  wheel   102 Sep 18 20 07 myWorkspace       to      Users Shared   ll drwxrwxr-x  3 root         admin   102 Sep 18 19 45 myWorkspace   So what am I doing wrong here  How should I configure this workspace so that I can 1  get rid of the error message and 2  access it from both accounts without seeing the error message   By the way  I m working on Mac OS X Lion v10 7 1

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Right answer can be found in this  duplicate  question   I reproduced the answer here  and it works        Just delete the  lock file in the  metadata directory in your eclipse   workspace directory

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Running eclipse in Administrator Mode fixed it for me  You can do this by  Right Click  -  Run as Administrator on the eclipse exe from your install dir   I was on a working environment with win7 machine having restrictive permission  I also did remove the  lock and  log files but that did not help  It can be a combination of all as well that made it work

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Check that you have enough rights to workspace directory  I got this error when I didn t have write permission to workspace

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for windows users  In case of you can t remove  lock file and it gives you the following     And you know that eclipse is already closed  just open Task Manager then processes then end precess for all eclipse exe occurrences in the processes list

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Go to TaskManager Right Click in the Task Bar  and select Processess menu bar and select eclipse exe and Click EndProcess

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I ve seen 3 other fixes so far    in  metadata   rm  lock file if 1  doesn t work  try end process javaw exe etc  to exit the IDE if 1  amp 2  doesn t work  try rm  log file in  metadata   and double check  plugin    This always worked for me  relocate  metadata   open and close eclipse  then overwrite  metadata back   The solution boils down to clean up the  metadata folder with correct contents

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In my case this occurred on a test instance of Eclipse run from my main Eclipse session during plugin development  An error caused the gui to disappear  but didn t totally kill it  Hitting the stop button in the console took care of it

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Workspaces can only be open in one copy of eclipse at once  Further  you took away your own write access from the looks of it  All the users in question have to have the  admin  group for what you did to even work a little

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An additional reason could be that you re pointing to a workspace on a drive that no longer exists  thinking that you re choosing the valid one  For instance  for me the workspace used to exist on the F drive  but now it is on my D drive  Even though I don t have the F drive anymore it is still listed as a workspace I once used during Eclipse startup  When I choose this old workspace Eclipse complains that the workspace is  in use   which is very strange

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Sometimes deleting the  lock file does not work  You can try this   Remove RECENT WORKSPACES line from eclipse configuration  settings org eclipse ui ide prefs

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