Eclipse hangs at the Android SDK Content Loader

Question

I\'ve been working with Eclipse 4.2 (Juno release 20120920-0800) on OS X 10.8.2 for a few weeks now, building apps for Android 3.0 and above. I have a quad core i7 MacBook P

Answer 1

It turns out this problem indeed occurs when your internet connection is flaky, slow, etc.

As soon as I got back to my normal internet connection, the content would load fine again, within less than a few seconds.

Answer 2

I have tried all the solution but i didn't get solution. After that i have disconnected Internet and deleted ddms.cfg from .android folder -> open eclipse -> dialog of statistics send to Google? -> Selected NO and Finally Worked for Me.

Edited:

I have tried eclipse -clean command in Command Prompt and that also worked for me.

Note: For eclipse -clean command first you have to select path of eclipse folder where you have placed.

Thanks.

Answer 3

Worked! All I did was to open Terminal and typed:

    cd documents/workspace/.metadata/.plugins

and then... typed

rm -rf

... in that .plugins category.

Answer 4

I prepared little script to make it easy dealing with this reoccuring and very annoying problem. Open Terminal, then:

open ~/.bash_profile

at the end of the file paste this function:

function eclipse-clean() {
  echo "removing ddms.cfg file" 
    cd ~/.android/
    rm ddms.cfg 
  echo "removing cache"
    cd cache/
    rm -rf *
  echo "done! you can open eclipse now."
}

then all you have to do now is:

source ~/.bash_profile

and whenever you are stuck just type in Terminal window:

eclipse-clean

Answer 5

I have used some other answers here to fix this problem but I came across it again recently, and none worked. I didn't want to re-install or delete my workspace, so I finally found one that did work that might help someone else. Delete the file:

/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.e4.workbench/workbench.xmi

You can make a backup first, if you like. It stores your workbench settings (perspective state, file paths for menu options, etc.) But eclipse loaded and I didn't have to re-install anything like some answer suggest. And I haven't seen this anywhere.

Answer 6

I'm on a Mac and using ADT, can confirm that the following worked for me.

cd workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects
rm -rf *

No amount of restarting the Eclipse, or rebooting the Mac was helpful. It seems that Eclipse gets into this stage because of stopping abruptly. I had to force boot my Mac and this issue seems to be happening since then.