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Change Eclipse Workspace Location

// June 2nd, 2011 // Posted in Eclipse

Sometimes I need to change my Eclipse “workspace” location. Especially when I share it between Linux & OSX. I’m using Eclipse Galileo (Eclipse 3.5) in this example although these applies to Helios (Eclipse 3.6) as well.

To my knowledge there are two ways to change the location.

• On Linux: From your Eclipse installed location, open the file “configuration/config.ini“. In my case Eclipse is installed in my home directory so I open “~/eclipse/configuration/config.ini“.
• On OSX: Go to Applications/eclipse/configuration/ and open the file “config.ini“.

In that file, edit the entry “osgi.instance.area.default=@user.home/workspace”

Below is my favorite way of doing it which is triggering the Eclipse dialog box asking me the location of “workspace”.

• On Linux: From your Eclipse installed location, open the file “configuration/.settings/org.eclipse.ui.ide.prefs“. Since Eclipse is installed in my home directory so I open “~/eclipse/configuration/.settings/org.eclipse.ui.ide.prefs“. In that file edit the entry “SHOW_WORKSPACE_SELECTION_DIALOG=false” and make it to “SHOW_WORKSPACE_SELECTION_DIALOG=true“
• On OSX: Go to Applications/eclipse/configuration/.settings and open the file “org.eclipse.ui.ide.prefs“. In that file edit the entry “SHOW_WORKSPACE_SELECTION_DIALOG=false” and make it to “SHOW_WORKSPACE_SELECTION_DIALOG=true“

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