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Asked: 2026-05-13T22:15:39+00:00

Is there a way to export the settings defined in Window > Preferences Dialog

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Is there a way to export the settings defined in Window > Preferences Dialog under XML > XML Files > Editor in Eclipse 3.5 Galileo (Java EE Package)? And where do Eclipse stores these settings?

Now i got an eclipse_xml_format.epf with the following content

/instance/org.eclipse.wst.xml.core/lineWidth=120
/instance/org.eclipse.wst.xml.core/indentationChar=space
/instance/org.eclipse.wst.xml.core/indentationSize=4

But i can’t import this file!

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  1. Editorial Team

    The file recording those XML settings is:

    <workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime\.settings\org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.prefs

    That is:

    • org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.prefs,
    • in the org.eclipse.core.runtime\.settings directorty
    • of your workspace

    So even if you cannot export them directly, you can at least copy/merge that file with another workspace setting file, re-importing that way the XML settings;

    That being said, if you export all your preferences, they are saved in an .epf file of your choice.

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    And all the lines beginning with /instance/org.eclipse.wst.xml.core are interesting:

    /instance/org.eclipse.wst.xml.core/indentationChar=space

    So you can remove all the other lines, and then re-import this epf files with only the XML settings in it.

    Note: for your “cleaned” export file to be reimported (at least with eclipse3.5), it ust contain the line file_export_version=3.0 (anywhere in the .epf file).

    #Thu Mar 11 13:33:16 CET 2010
/instance/org.eclipse.wst.xml.core/lineWidth=119
/instance/org.eclipse.wst.xml.core/indentationChar=space
/instance/org.eclipse.wst.xml.core/indentationSize=4
file_export_version=3.0

    will be re-imported successfully

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