Eclipse getting too slow - workspace recreation helped

Question

My Eclipse was getting slower and slower over time. Tips I found on the Internet did not help. What I did is completely deleted my workspace, created new one and reimported all

Answer 1

I use RAD 7.5 (which is based off of Eclipse 3.4). I found several of my projects had millions of history files, all older than 7 days, and mostly the same dummy MANIFEST.MF file (39 bytes).

I discovered this when I tried to delete an old project with Windows Explorer. After 12 hours, Windows Explorer reported that it had recycled 3.5 million files, and was still working.

I found the only way to remove the workspace was to open a Command Window, CD to

\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.history

then type

DEL *.* /s/q

Even this took the better part of an hour.