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

After you exit the eclipse, there would be an specific failed reason. Mine is that the DISK IS FULL so the eclipse can't write into it anymore.

Answer 2

I solved the problem switching the workspace.

1. Go to File (Switch workspace)
2. Select the destination and create a folder named Workspace
3. Run a Hello World and close Eclipse (notice that Eclipse creates the folder RemoteSystemsTempFiles automatically)
4. now copy all your projects into the new folder Workspace
5. Open Eclipse and if necessary (sometimes Eclipse does not show the projects) import all of them (go to File/ Open projects from File System)

Answer 3

Agree with @J-Dizzle,

I am a beginner in web-development and had a hard time solving this today. Had similar problems when I was creating a SpringBoot project in STS. Tried most of the solutions mentioned but they didn't work. Tried removing .metadata folder and re-building my springboot project but still nothing worked.

NOTE : I had multiple workspace in STS and this error occurred after migrating a project from one workspace to another.

Solution : All you need to do is restart your eclipse/STS IDE and it will work just fine.