Eclipse Package Explorer Oddity

Question

Recently whenever I open my workspace in Eclipse the Package Explorer has always defaulted to focusing on a single folder of all my projects/resource files. I've put up with this for a few months since I can just "Up to" to get back to the project level.

However, I'd like to get this sorted. Does anyone have any idea how I can stop Eclipse opening this specific folder as its default?

Answer 1

You've probably already found the solution by now, but I recently ran into the same problem and found a solution that seemed to work for me and thought I'd share.

Close Eclipse and open your workspace's workbench.xml file for edit:

gedit <yourEclipseWorkspaceDir>/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/workbench.xml

Search the doc for the name of the folder your Package Explorer keeps defaulting to. This should be the value of the path attribute in a line like this:

<input factoryID="org.eclipse.ui.internal.model.ResourceFactory" path="<theOffendingFolder>" type="2"/>

Change the value of the path attribute to point to the desired folder, or delete that input line entirely if you want the Package Explorer to show you the default project level. Save the file and open Eclipse.