How to change the Eclipse default workspace

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Where can I change the default workspace in Eclipse

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Open a command prompt  Change to the eclipse home directory and type  eclipse -clean  e g  C  eclipse eclipse -clean  This will ask for the workspace selection  It will also force to set it as the default workspace   Then  go to eclipsehome-- configuration-- settings folder   open org eclipse ui de prefs in a notepad   set this property to true from false   SHOW WORKSPACE SELECTION DIALOG true  You will be asked for a workspace selection everytime

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If you want to change recent workspace manually in a configurationfile org eclipse ui ide prefs exists in   eclipse  gt  configuration  gt   settings  gt  org eclipse ui ide prefs   open this file in an editor find  RECENT WORKSPACES in line  2 and in this line you can see recent workspaces and can change or even remove them

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I took this question to mean how can you change the Default workspace so that when Eclipse boots up the workspace you want is automatically loaded     Go under preferences then type  workspace  in the search box provided to filter the list  Alternatively you can go to General Startup and Shutdown Workspaces  There you can set a flag to make Eclipse prompt you to select a workspace at startup by checking the  Prompt for workspace at startup  checkbox  You can set the number of previous workspaces to remember also  Finally there is a list of recent  workspaces  If you just remove all but the one you want Eclipse will automatically startup with that workspace

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If you want to create a new workspace - simply enter a new path in the textfield at the  select workspace  dialog  Eclipse will create a new workspace at that location and switch to it

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My kepler eclipse went into not responding at boot  shortly after installing GAE support  which I traced to a corrupt workspace  I fixed this by closing kepler  renaming the workspace directory  in use  so kepler starts normally without a workspace  then used file    switch workspace to generate new workspace  Then started populating that with my old projects that I still needed

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If you mean to change the directory in which the program execution will occur  go to  Run configurations  in the Run tab   Then select your project and go to the  Arguments  tab  you can change the directory there  By default it is the root directory of your project

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Whatever Frank has suggested to change in config ini is correct  In case  if that didn t help  you need to remove path from recent workspace as below    Go to eclipse configuration org eclipse ui ide prefs  Open the file  org eclipse ui ide prefs    Remove the first path in RECENT WORKSPACES   MAX RECENT WORKSPACES 5 RECENT WORKSPACES  Users wrokspace1 n Users wrokspace2 n Users wrokspace3 n Users wrokspace4 RECENT WORKSPACES PROTOCOL 3 SHOW WORKSPACE SELECTION DIALOG false eclipse preferences version 1

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If you mean  change workspace  go to File - gt  Switch Workspace

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If you are talking about changing the working directory for a java program that you launch from within eclipse  then there s a space for that in the run configuration   If you go to Run menu and select  Run Configurations     then select your run configuration  then on the  Arguments  tab for a Java Application there is a place for you to edit the  Working directory   This alters the current directory that will be used for launching the java program    See related question Default eclipse working directory if this is what you are meaning

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On Ubuntu I went to      eclipse org eclipse platform 4 3 0 1473617060 linux gtk x86 64 configuration config ini    and added this line at the bottom  osgi instance area default  user home workspace   and changed workspace to the dir path from my home to where I put my workspace   I combined  Frank answer with  Ronan Quillevere s comment

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You can check the option  that shows up when you start eclipse  Please see the figure below

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Go to eclipse configuration  Open the file  config ini  Modify the line  osgi instance area default  F  Workspace Java    where  F  Workspace Java  should be your default workspace

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File   Switch workspace   add the workspace you like   Eclipse will restart using the workspace you wanted

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In Eclipse  go to File -  Switch Workspace  choose or create a new workspace

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This is the only answer you got first when you search for default workspace  but any solution is not solved my problem  So I follow this step for a default workspace   First copy shortcut icon for your eclipse  Right click and go to properties  add your workspace path with -data attribute   In Target  D  eclipse path eclipse exe -clean -data D  workspace path workspace  For using the same shortcuts and preference into this workspace  Export general -- gt  preference from your working eclipse  it will generate one  epf file  So  just import  epf file into your new workspace  and you are done

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