Removing recent workspaces in Eclipse menu

Posted on March 29, 2007, under Technology.

When Eclipse 3.2 launches, it asks you which workspace you would like to work in. To help you remember the workspaces you’ve been in, Eclipse provides you a drop-down menu of workspaces you have recently been in.

If you ever find that you have a defunct workspace listed in the menu, as I did, here is how you can manually remove it.

  1. Find the following file:
    (eclipse-home)\configuration\.settings\org.eclipse.ui.ide.prefs
  2. Open the file, and look for the line that starts with: RECENT_WORKSPACES
  3. The workspaces are separated by commas, so delete whichever workspace you no longer want in the drop-down menu.
  4. Save the file.

Enjoy a clean startup menu!

4 Replies to "Removing recent workspaces in Eclipse menu"

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Mel Riffe  on June 13, 2007

Jess – Thank you so much for this tidbit of info!

–Mel

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jess  on June 13, 2007

You’re welcome Mel. Sometimes it’s those little things that make the day better. :)

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Michael  on September 19, 2008

Yes, the little things—thanks!

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seven  on July 2, 2010

Thank You! Tidiness FTW :)

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