What is RemoteSystemsTempFiles in Eclipse?

Question

I noticed that I had a project named RemoteSystemTempFiles which I never have created. After googling it seems to be plugin feature on eclipse, but didn\'t got any other idea of

Answer 1

I had a similar issue using PHP Explorer perspective. I always had the problem that Eclipse could not save project metadata. I selected the "filters" to uncheck RSE Temporary Project. Once it appeared in the tree view, I right click to delete it. Then I can check again to keep same initial config.

Answer 2

If you're still seeing unwanted results in RemoteSystemsTempFiles when searching for a resource (e.g. CTRL+SHIFT+R), you can manually show the Eclipse resource in the Project Explorer and remove it...

Project Explorer view > Customize View... > Filters > Uncheck "RSE Internal Projects" > OK > find it in the Project Explorer tree > expand it > remove old folders.

Answer 3

Easiest way to get rid of these files is remove them physically.... go to ../../eclipse-workspace/RemoteSystemsTempFiles and remove from there..

Answer 4

In Window->preferences type 'remote'. Click on remote systems view and uncheck the box that says 'reopen remote systems view to previous state'.

Eclipse already adds the .metadata folder - why does it add extra clutter?

Answer 5

In fact, I find it quite useful during development, especially if I'm working on a project that has configurations, templates and properties files that are located outside of my project and I have no intention to include them in the package. if you open the .project of RemoteSystemsTempFiles you can link a couple of external folders that you might want to work on and not ship or version.(look at the link tag)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<projectDescription>
    <name>RemoteSystemsTempFiles</name>
    <comment></comment>
    <projects>
    </projects>
    <buildSpec>
    </buildSpec>
    <natures>
        <nature>org.eclipse.rse.ui.remoteSystemsTempNature</nature>
    </natures>
    <linkedResources>
        <link>
            <name>CONFIG</name>
            <type>2</type>
            <location>C:/CONFIG</location>
        </link>
    </linkedResources>
</projectDescription>

Answer 6

You'll need to remove the Remote System Explorer End-User Runtime package.
Help > Installation Details > Installed Software and scroll down until you see it.

It has several sub-packages, all of which are removed altogether with their parent package.