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Reputation: 3175

Where are Eclipse preferences stored?

Can you please break down where eclipse stores its preferences? There are some in the workspace directory. Perhaps there are other stored in the installation directory? Where else? Thanks! :)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3229

Answers (1)

greg-449
greg-449

Reputation: 111216

The majority of configuration is saved in the various folders in the workspace .metadata folder. This includes most preferences.

A few values, such as the list of workspaces, are stored in the configuration directory in the Eclipse install (these are 'configuration scope' preferences).

Preferences using the 'instance scope' of the standard Eclipse preferences system are in the .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings folder in xxx.prefs files (which are Java Properties files).

It is also possible to have per-project 'project scope' preferences. These are stored in a .settings folder in the project.

Upvotes: 6

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