Revert to Eclipse default settings

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I know there is the option in Eclipse to  restore defaults     The problem is I had imported a  epf to change my editors font colors   I m not a big fan of the changes and would like to go back  I ve tried deleting the eclipse folder and downloading a fresh copy  but the styles persist    I assume there is a config file somewhere that I could possibly delete   Anyway  if you could help me out here I would appreciate it  I ve looked for solutions but they all seem to point to the same answer that doesn t work for me

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I was having this problem in Eclipse Luna (4.4.2)

Exit Eclipse
Deleted the following under the .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings directory
- com.aptana.theme.prefs
- com.github.eclipsecolortheme.prefs
- org.eclipse.e4.ui.css.swt.theme.prefs
Started Eclipse
In Preferences > General > Appeareance > Color Theme > check "Set all background colors to default"

Without step 4. a vertical strip near line numbers remained the older background color

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Just delete your  metadata folder in your workspace and start eclipse

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To switch back to eclipse s original theme go to window   preferences   General click on drop down    Appearance do not click on drop down    Themes  Light  in drop down menu    Apply and close   Now restart eclipse   It helped me to get back the original eclipse theme

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I went to My workspace      directory  metadata  plugins org eclipse core runtime  settings    and then deleted all recently added files

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To me the first answer by Rikus Khan was almost what I needed  It wasn t enough to go to  e g  General   Editors   Text editors and click Restore Defaults  I had to choose every single subcategory  namely  Accessibility  Annotations  Hyperlinking  etc   and manually restore their defaults as well  Apparently restoring defaults doesn t propagate down the tree   The problem I had was the underscoring of warnings and errors in Java editor changed to highliting  after importing RainbowDrops epf  recommended by the MoonRise UI Theme  and didn t want to revert when changing syntax coloring and other related options  This option itself is located in the aforementioned Annotations   Errors and Warnings

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I ran into a similar situation for Network Preferences  Launching eclipse exe with the clean option helped in my case

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you need to do the process for all individual languages you work on

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The settings of plugins  including the core ones  are saved in the  workspace dir   metadata  plugins directories   workspace dir  refers to the workspace directory you use    So if you remove the  workspace dir   metadata  you will reset all the properties defined  which will include all the properties  not only the font ones   Another idea is to create and use a new workspace  Be careful  as your code source may be located in your  workspace dir   directory   But why don t you just use Use System Font button in the Eclipse Properties dialog

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Deleting everything under your workspace s  metadata  plugins org eclipse core runtime  settings will restore to defaults but you will lose every other setting too  You can selectively undo changes made by importing RainbowDrops epf  Open RanbowDrops epf  Mine looks like this   file export version 3 0  instance ccw core ccw preferences editor color FUNCTION 167 236 33  instance ccw core ccw preferences editor color FUNCTION bold false       instance com adobe flexide as core asASDocItalic true  instance com adobe flexide as core asASDocColor  626262       instance com android ide eclipse ddms logcat msg color assert 205 22 137  instance com android ide eclipse ddms logcat msg color debug 123 182 234       instance com powerflasher fdt ui AS CONSTANTS color 152 118 170  instance com powerflasher fdt ui AS CORE color 18 144 195   the lines starting with  instance ccw core will go into file ccw core prefs  Lines  instance com adobe flexide as core will go into com adobe flexide as core prefs and so on  You need to delete those files only  There are quite a lot of them though  i had to delete 53   easy way to sift them is to find the first one and sort by modification time they will group together    BTW there is nice dark theme available by default in eclipse 4 7  2017   You can try and switch color themes without this kind of hassle by installing Eclipse Color Themes plugin  it also has good selection of dark color themes too

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You can reset to the default color scheme in the Window Preferences options page  This example will be for resetting a theme used for Java   Navigate to Windows Preferences Java Editor  Click on Syntax Coloring  Click  Restore Defaults  and  Apply   Then  navigate to General Editors  Click on Text Editors  Click on  Restore Defaults  and  Apply    I had the same issue and the above steps cleared up my problem  Also  the Show line numbers check box is on the last page from above

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I had the same problem  My path back to default was as follows    Install Eclipse Color Themes Plugin  http   www eclipsecolorthemes org   Navigate to Window- Preferences Navigate to General- Appearance- Color Themes Click Restore Defaults  then click Apply   That should take care of it

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Try switching between different Themes option available in General- Appearance- Colors and Fonts    I earlier used Dark theme in Juno  Then reverted to Windows 7 classic theme but was left with Black background  And that led me to this question  Having not found any solution I finally tried with Windows XP Olive and to my amazement black background was restored to default

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I encountered this problem also  I went with the second answer  however  I only removed   metadata  plugins org eclipse core runtime  settings - this way I was able to preserve my workspace settings  source code etc   Going forward I would recommend downloading the Eclipise Color Theme Plugin from http   www eclipsecolorthemes org  - This allows you to switch between a range of color themes easily  and easily switch back to  Default

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Just remove  metadata from your eclipse workspace  You can find it C  Users username workspace

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I followed the instructions of Ronan on this one and worked well    rm -r  WORKSPACE DIR  metadata  plugins org eclipse core runtime  settings    Relaunch eclipse   I had installed the an eclipse preference for colours    One would think eclipse could make it simpler to remove preferences than this manual process

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I was able to solve a similar problem like this    Close the Eclipse IDE Remove the  metadata folder from your eclipse workspace Relaunch eclipse   The only disadvantage is that you have to re-import all your projects

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Restore Defaults  is not working    You must remove the all file in the      workspace  metadata  plugins org eclipse core runtime  settings  directory

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It is simple   First  you open eclipse but with workspace different with workspace you have working  then  you choose File   Export   --  General   Preferences --  choose to folder which you want to pick the file   epf  Second  you open eclipse with workspace you want to work  Then choose File   Import   --  General   Preferences --  choose to folder which you had picked the file   epf and OK  Have fun

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I am not an expert on this  but I ll share my example with you  One guy suggested to create new eclipse preferences file or epf file using another clean install of eclipse  I made a file called clean epf and compared it with RainbowDrops epf  the one which messed up my highlighting and such   I noticed a huge difference between the two epf files  So  you might not want to use this method    The whole windows --- preferences thing did not help  So  I just closed eclipse  Went to  My workspace directory  metadata  plugins org eclipse core runtime  settings    and deleted the file org eclipse ui editors prefs and opened eclipse  It works   BTW  keep a back up of your  settings folders just in case   In case you want to see some difference between rainbow and clean epf -   Rainbow -   file export version 3 0  instance ccw core ccw preferences editor color FUNCTION 167 236 33  instance ccw core ccw preferences editor color FUNCTION bold false  instance ccw core ccw preferences editor color FUNCTION enabled true  instance ccw core ccw preferences editor color FUNCTION italic false  instance ccw core ccw preferences editor color GLOBAL VAR 141 218 248    more here   Clean  exporting all  -    instance org eclipse jdt ui tabWidthPropagated true  instance org eclipse mylyn monitor ui org eclipse mylyn monitor activity tracking enabled checked true  instance org eclipse mylyn tasks ui org eclipse mylyn tasks ui filters nonmatching encouraged true  org eclipse mylyn monitor ui 3 13 0 v20140702-2155  instance org eclipse jdt ui useQuickDiffPrefPage true    more here   Clean  exporting only java  -   file export version 3 0  instance org eclipse jdt ui org eclipse jdt ui formatterprofiles version 12  org eclipse jdt ui 3 10 100 v20140905-1343         end of file   So  I am not sure if this is the best way to go

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None of the answers above worked for me for Mars  so I took drastic measures    Possibly optional  Donwload newest version of Eclipse from their website Possibly optional  Find where your executable of current Eclipse s at  and remove the whole folder  you can t uninstall Eclipse through Configurations because it never really installs itself on the system  Remove the  metadata folder inside your workspace folder  e g  C  Users bram Documents workspace  metadata  you can leave the projects as they were  Remove the  eclipse folder inside  User   e g  C  Users bram  eclipse Optional  clean file system  and registry   with a tool such as CCleaner   The last step is definitely optional  but I m not sure about the first two  In other words  I can t confirm that the corrupted files were inside eclipse s executable folder  inside  eclipse or inside the workspace s  metadata  I m pretty sure  metadata isn t the culprit since I d already removed that before so my guess is that the folder  eclipse in  User  is the cause   If you ve tried my steps  please comment whether or not they helped you and which removed folder you think solved it

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Not even a single answer of the above let me able to get the original theme as I expected  I tried myself  amp  got my default theme by changing the workspace  This led me to the original theme  same-to-same  that I used to saw when installing eclipse

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go to windows preferences Java Editor Syntax Coloring go all the way down and click on Restore Defaults  amp  Apply and Close

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Open any java class -  Right clic -  Checkstyle -  Clear Checkstyle vilolations  It works for me

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I had similar issue  I imported a color theme and didn t like it  I never thought reverting will be so much trouble  I installed a color theme plugin  Eclipse Color Theme 0 14 0    I went to Windows-- preferences-- General-- Appearance-- Color Theme  I selected the Default option  It reverted to default   Hope this helps

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