[monocongo]

I shut down MyEclipse since it was taking up a huge amount of memory, and when I launched it again I only got vanilla Eclipse. I can see that the MyEclipse plugins are still located under C:\Program Files\MyEclipse\eclipse\plugins, but Eclipse doesn’t seem to be able to find them.

Can anyone suggest what I can do to get MyEclipse back ?

I am using Eclipse 3.0.1 and MyEclipse 3.8.2 on a Windows XP machine.

Thanks in advance.

–James

[Riyad Kalla]

James,
First lets make sure MyEclipse is gone… navigate to Help > Software Updates > Manage Configs, do you see MyEclipse there? If not, right click > Add, and point it at C:\Program Files\MyEclipse, and hit OK, then restart. You should be all set.

[monocongo]

I checked and MyEclipse is gone. I was unable to right click and Add in the Product Configuration window, but I was able to right click > New > Extension Location. When I tried adding the location C:\Program Files\MyEclipse I got an error message telling me that the selected location doesn’t contain a product extension, that there should be an eclipse folder and a marker file called .eclipseextension. The marker file was indeed absent. I created this file using bash (touch .eclipseextension), and this allowed me to go ahead with adding the configuration location. I then restarted the Workbench but no MyEclipse. Now I have the Extension Location C:\Program Files\MyEclipse\eclipse showing up in the Product Configuration window with no extensions and I can’t remove it.

Should I just reinstall MyEclipse ?

–James

[Riyad Kalla]

Yes… it sounds like something got borked along the way here… are you using cygwin under windows or something? (reference to Bash). I’m not sure of the ramifications of installing/using E or ME under cygwin…

[monocongo]

I have reinstalled MyEclipse and still it doesn’t show up when I start MyEclipse – I just get plain Eclipse.

The Configuration Location C:\Program Files\MyEclipse in the Product Configuration window shows MyEclipse Workbench but with a red X, and no matter how many times I enable it and restart the Workbench I never get MyEclipse added, and hence can’t get a MyEclipse perspective, MyEclipse XML editors, etc.

Will I have to reinstall both Eclipse and MyEclipse to get me out of this mess ? What can I do to keep this from happening to me again ?

–James

[monocongo]

Yes I am using Cygwin for a bash shell in order to telnet and ftp into UNIX boxes and run some JAR commands, but other than that I am using only Windows programs on my local machine, and I never muck with the C:/eclipse directory using Cygwin/bash. I am starting MyEclipse from the Windows XP desktop (or start menu).

–James

[Riyad Kalla]

Lets do this:
1) Shut down Eclipse
2) Go erase the <Eclipse dir>\configuration directory
3) Start Eclipse, it should be plain old Eclipse
4) Go to Help > Soft Updates > Manage Configs, then add the MyEclipse extension and restart

Did it work?

[monocongo]

This did solve my problem. I didn’t even need to add the MyEclipse extension as it was already enabled.

Thanks so much for the prompt and helpful support.

–James

[Riyad Kalla]

Hey I’m glad it worked.

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