Where does Eclipse store settings and plugins in userdir? Where does Eclipse store settings and plugins in userdir? unix unix

Where does Eclipse store settings and plugins in userdir?


We've eventually found the directory containing all that stuff by accident. Somehow we broke it and Eclipse refused to start on my coworker's computer:-)

See ~/workspace/.metadata/.plugins or wherever your workspace resides.


As far as I know, Eclipse stores its plugins in its installation directory (eclipse). They might reside in eclipse/plugins or eclipse/dropins. You can copy the whole eclipse directory from your old box.