Eclipse IDE view gone - how to get it back

Question

I basically have multiple monitors and did some changes today. As such, the views on one of my monitors (specifically the console view) is no longer there. I can\'t seem to find

Answer 1

I tried all of the suggestions below, but none of them worked. Here is what finally worked for me. 1. Go to the workspace folder and change its file name. 2. Open eclipse and accept the new workspace. 3. Import projects into the new workspace.

If you're like me and have a lot of projects its a pain but it worked, and I get to leave out a few projects that I don't need anymore. Good Luck!

Answer 2

In my case Ctrl-F Find and Replace window would not display. Tried everything. What worked for me:

• assign Ctrl-F to another action like Search
• press Ctrl-F
• a popup menu allows you to choose which action
• select Find and Replace (which actually shows the popup!!!!)
• Close the Find and Replace Window
• Unbind the key from Search

Answer 3

I opened a new window and it solved my problem of my editor failing to open a file - resetting perspective and deleting indexes did not solve my problem.

Answer 4

I did Window->Perspective->Reset Perspective on all of my Perspectives within Eclipse Mars, and it did the trick in restoring all of my views.

Answer 5

I managed to return my gone view without resetting the perspective!
I opened workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.e4.workbench/workbench.xmi, searched for "outline" there (the view was Outline) and found it (precisely org.eclipse.ui.views.ContentOutline) inside a children tag which had an attribute visible="false". I removed that attribute and also <tags>Minimized</tags> inside the children tag, saved the file, started Eclipse, and that was it, my view returned!

Answer 6

Slightly related... I just had a case where my editor disappeared and would not reappear. I could try to open files but not see them anywhere (the file would be successfully parsed by the "Outline" view). Simply resetting the perspective didn't work. Nor did Window -> New Editor. To fix I had to do this:

1. Window -> Close Perspective. (I actually did Close All Perspectives in a fit of rage)
2. Window -> Open Perspective. (C/C++ in my case)
3. Window -> Reset Perspective.

BTW, I'm running Juno.