I’ve recently upgraded to Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede), but I’m experiencing some intermittent issues with my workspace saving and loading on shutdown/startup. The problems seems to be intermittent but occurs more frequently than not. When I start Eclipse, the workspace does not load with the previously opened files and settings (no files are open and windows return to default locations).
I suspect that this may have something to do with UAC in Vista. I am running Eclipse on Windows Vista Business 32-bit.
Any ideas? At the minimum, it may be helpful to see if Eclipse is periodically saving the workspace, as it should – which files might I be looking for?
You might be running into the virtualised folders issue. UAC tries to silently stop apps from crashing but wont allow them to write to folders such as program files etc. Try running eclipse as administrator and see if you get the same issue. If so try moving your workspace folder into your user directory and see if that lets you get things done?