How to force Eclipse to ask for default workspace

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I noticed that after installing cdt  Eclipse always loads the default workspace  The workspace listed in the config ini in osgi instance area default  Eclipse does not ask which workspace to open regardless if Prompt for workspace on startup is set or not   How do I force Eclipse to ask which workspace to load on startup

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I d recommend you to create a shortcut to eclipse exe with the -data command line option  This way you can create a separate shortcut to each workspace you use  and avoid unnecessary dialogs and mouse clicks   Windows  Just create an Eclipse shortcut on your desktop  then right-click to open Properties and under Shortcut set something like this as Target  C  eclipse eclipse exe -data C  Path to your workspace1  This will launch Eclipse and automatically open workspace1   Repeat the steps for all the workspaces you use often

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Inside the configuration  settings folder of your Eclipse installation  there is a file called org eclipse ui ide prefs  Open this file in a text editor and change the property SHOW WORKSPACE SELECTION DIALOG from false to true   Tested with Eclipse 3 7 on Windows

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Version  Ecliplse CIndigo Service Release 2  File  gt  Switch Workspace  gt  Other    In the textbox  write the path in the Workspace  or Browse  It automatically sets the default Workspace during exit  To change Workspace go back to step 1

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I had the same issue  in Eclipse Juno   but I just wanted to change the default workspace to the one I m using  There is a setting in       ECLIPSE DIRECTORY configuration config ini   that is causing a specific workspace to be loaded without prompting for a workspace   If you just want to change the default workspace  you can just modify the value or add it if it doesn t exist      osgi instance area default  user home some workspace   or     osgi instance area default  some absolute path some workspace

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Sometimes you need to pay attention to howw Eclipse is launched  I ever pinned Eclipse by rigk-click on the excutable and pinning it to taskbar  In this way  the Eclipse is launched to use settings under c  User public public Documents eclipse  which is not very desirable   However  if you pin it by creating a short-cut  then it will launch to use settings in the folder of Eclipse installation   Then everything makes much more sense

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if your eclipse is auto-closing at startup you may do this  open the properties of your shortcut and add -clean at the end of the path  or do this in cmd   cd C  PATH TO YOUR ECLIPSE eclipse -clean like mentioned earlier above comments

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I had the same problem on my eclipse  and calling eclipse -clean did not solve the problem   In the end I figured out that within the installation folder of eclipse there is a script called eclipse   This script does some setting of environment variables and then calls eclipse bin  The call for eclipse bin contained the command line switch   -data    eclipse   When I removed that switch from start-up script  I got the workspace selection as expected  Maybe that helps others to solve their problems

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I use Eclipse Indigo  and this is how I do it   Window   Preferences   Startup and Shutdown   Workspaces  check box at the top of the window   Prompt for workspace on startup

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I first tried the -clean option  but that didn t solve the problem   Then I added the -data option with the correct path to the workspace    That solved the problem for me

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Aptana 3 2 2      configuration settings org eclipse ui ide prefs   Edit   RECENT WORKSPACES I    PDT  workspace   It will check the recent workspace  so just set it to what you want  I do it for running off external drive

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The    Prompt for workspace at startup    checkbox did not working  You can setting default workspace  Look for the folder named    configuration    in the Eclipse installation directory  and open up the    config ini    file  You   ll edit the  osgi instance area default  to supply your desired default workspace

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Editing the config ini file with   osgi instance area default  D   Projects  Eclipse Workspace     worked for me

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I resolved the problem by adding -showLocation parameter to eclipse ini

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Go to Window -- Preferances - General -- Startup and Shutdown -Workspaces  Check box for Prompt for workspace on startup is there   Select it    Then at start up eclipse will ask for workspace selection   ---- EDIT ----   On OSX the Eclipse Juno  menu bar path is    Eclipse - Preferences   In the preferences dialog box  I selected the tree node    General - Startup and Shutdown - Workspaces   From that panel  there was a check box labeled     Prompt for workspace on startup      I checked it  then shut down eclipse and restarted it   It prompted me for a new workspace location

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I followed the thread and tired all things but didn t work  Finally I saw that my eclipse shortcut target is like below  C  Eclipse 3 6 eclipse eclipse exe -clean -data  C  workplace        I simply removed -data option and it worked  Now I got popup to choose workspace at startup   cheers

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It works for me if I tick the box  Prompt for workspace on startup   which you find in  Window   Preferences   General   Startup and Shutdown   Workspaces   HTH

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I had the same problem with indigo on linux 3 0 X86 64  After runnning eclipse -clean everything went back to normal   Thanks to some comment on the eclipse issue  https   bugs eclipse org bugs show bug cgi id 134412

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I can confirm that I am having the same issue  I am also using eclipse classic with CDT  The funny thing is that it only started happening earlier this evening  Before then  I was always prompted for the workspace  Checking  Prompt for workspace on startup  has no effect  I am not launching eclipse using a startup script  so the -data flag is not set on launch  I have removed the line  osgi instance area default  from the configuration config ini  but that had no effect    A few strange quirks that are incidental to this problem  If I delete the  workspace  workspace it creates it again upon launch  However  when I switch to one of my  real  workspaces I notice that the  workspace  workspace is not listed as an option to be switched to    As would be expected  reinstalling eclipse resolves the issue  But it would be nicer to find a way to fix the problem without resorting to that

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Starting eclipse with eclipse -clean did wonders for me

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