Removing recent workspaces in Eclipse menu

Posted on March 29, 2007, under Web Dev/Tech.

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!

3 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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