Eclipse: “'Periodic workspace save.' has encountered a pro‍blem.”

Question

I\'m using Eclipse Indigo on Mac 10.7.4. While working, I get these periodic, annoying dialogs

\'Periodic workspace save.\' has encountered a problem.

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Answer 1

I encountered the same problem , my resolution was to rename the the folder name under the workspace folder. i.e. com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.alertmanager.embedded was renamed to com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.alertmanager.2embeddedxx and rebuilt my project.

Answer 2

Close Eclipse. Open RemoteSystemsTempFiles folder in Workspace, and clear inside this folder. Again open eclipse and close, warn about .project. Press Ok, then open Eclipse. Solved my problem that.

Answer 3

In my case, the drive I was storing my workspace on had become full downloading SDK updates full and I just needed to clear some space on it.

Answer 4

This happened to me because i deleted one of the resources files inside the .metadata folder in my workspace.

After trying all methods, deleting the .metadata folder in my workspace worked.

Infact, this nuke option seems to work when there are a lot of issues related to eclipse bugs. One such example is working-sets. Working-sets are extremely buggy(but useful) and it is there that most of my eclipse problems start.

Hope this helps someone.

Answer 5

Using Ubuntu, got the same issue I noticed that the owner of some of the directories in ~/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/ ...etc... was root changed owner to me and the error stopped happening.

Looks like the same sort of issue may be caused by multiple causes.

Answer 6

The solution that work for me is the following:

1. Delete .metadata folder
2. Restart eclipse