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user316117
user316117

Reputation: 8271

Eclipse leaving stuff behind that I can't kill

I'm using Eclipse Indigo on Windows 7 for Android development.

Every so often when I shut down Eclipse it puts up a dialog box with a progress bar called "saving workspace" that gets about 20% of the way across and just hangs there. This is a known and reported bug in Eclipse, and it's NOT what this question is about.

On the web the usual solution when that happens is to go into Task Manager and kill Eclipse.exe. I do that and I also kill adb.exe. But the "saving workspace" progress bar remains, and it even shows up with the Eclipse icon on the task bar at the bottom of my screen. I don't see anything in Task Manager that corresponds to this. How do I get rid of it, short of rebooting my whole PC?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 206

Answers (1)

M A
M A

Reputation: 72854

There should be a java or javaw process shown in the Task Manager as well. You may want to make sure it corresponds to the Eclipse process. Try killing this as well (as usual you should anticipate weird things when you do this forcefully, e.g. I sometimes experience slight workspace changes when I re-launch Eclipse after killing javaw).

Also Indigo seems to be a relatively old version of Eclipse, which you may want to upgrade. Better yet, use Android Studio if you want to program with Android.

Upvotes: 1

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