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Can't get Eclipse to run any more

From	Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Can't get Eclipse to run any more
Date	2017-07-13 09:33 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<ok7skk$jfc$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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I've asked for help at both the Eclipse forums at eclipse.org and at 
StackExchange and answered every question I was asked but the people 
helping me haven't been able to suggest a resolution that works. I 
thought I'd ask here to see if anyone has any ideas. I really would like 
Eclipse to work again so that I don't have to deal with the learning 
curve of getting fluent with another IDE, especially right now.

Here's what I posted at StackExchange:
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My copy of Eclipse (Mars.2) on Windows 10 stopped working this past 
Sunday (July 9, 2017) for no obvious reason. Ever since then, when I try 
to launch Eclipse, I get a very brief glimpse of the splash screen, then 
it closes. There is no new log file in the eclipse\configuration folder; 
the oldest one is several days old. There was no exit code screen like 
the ones I've seen when I had exit code 13 or exit code 1. I've got a 
single JDK in C:\Program Files and it is the latest and greatest 64-bit 
JDK (at least the download link said it was a 64-bit version. I've 
forgotten how to determine with certainty what version it is via command 
line parameters.) I've tried installing newer versions of Eclipse, 
including both a version of Neon and the latest version of Oxygen, on 
both my C: drive and my F: drive (the other logical drive on my internal 
hard drive) and all of them have the same symptoms.

I've installed a copy of Netbeans 8.2 just to see if it would install 
and work and it seems to do fine. I was able to import projects from my 
Eclipse workspace and the various bits of code seemed to import fine. I 
also wrote a very basic HelloWorld just to see if it would run and it 
did. I think that means my JDK and my Eclipse workspace are fine. But 
Eclipse still won't launch. I'm completely baffled and can't think of 
what to do to make it work again. It was just fine right up until Sunday 
morning.

Logically, you have to be suspecting I did something silly right about 
then: messed with settings that I should have left alone, deleted 
something I shouldn't have deleted or something along those lines. I 
can't think of anything I did that in retrospect seems foolish. All I 
did was reboot Windows as I periodically do. Now, Eclipse resolutely 
refuses to work and won't tell me why.

I could just abandon Eclipse and move on to Netbeans or IntelliJ or one 
of the other IDEs but I've been using Eclipse happily for some time. I 
really don't want to invest the time it's going to take to learn how to 
do all the things I do in Eclipse in another IDE. I'm hoping someone 
here can help me figure out what's wrong and get it working again.

Any ideas?

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Rhino

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Can't get Eclipse to run any more Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2017-07-13 09:33 -0400
  Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-07-13 10:28 -0400
    Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2017-07-13 11:26 -0400
      Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-07-13 16:02 -0400
        Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2017-07-13 17:10 -0400
          Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2017-07-13 18:11 -0400
            Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-07-13 18:13 -0400
              Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2017-07-13 18:56 -0400
                Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-07-13 19:23 -0400
                Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2017-07-13 22:36 -0400
                Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-07-13 22:44 -0400
                Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2017-07-14 13:53 -0400
                Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-07-14 14:53 -0400
                Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-07-14 19:18 +0000
            Re: Can't get [any jar files] to run any more Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-07-14 07:14 +0000
              Re: Can't get [any jar files] to run any more Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2017-07-14 14:02 -0400
                Re: Can't get [any jar files] to run any more Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-14 11:06 -0700
                Re: Can't get [any jar files] to run any more Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-07-14 14:49 -0400
                Re: Can't get [any jar files] to run any more Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2017-07-15 12:15 -0400
                Re: Can't get [any jar files] to run any more Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-07-15 19:52 +0000
                Re: Can't get [any jar files] to run any more Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2017-07-15 16:31 -0400
                Re: Can't get [any jar files] to run any more Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-17 06:04 -0700
                Success! [Was: Can't get [any jar files] to run any more] Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2017-07-18 06:33 -0400
                Success! [Was: Can't get [any jar files] to run any more] Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2017-07-18 06:27 -0400
            Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-14 05:23 -0700
          Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2017-07-14 19:06 +0000
            Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2017-07-15 12:17 -0400
  Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2017-07-13 18:09 +0200
    Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2017-07-13 16:58 -0400
      Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2017-07-15 01:57 +0200
        Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> - 2017-07-15 12:01 -0400

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