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Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more

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Subject	Re: Can't get Eclipse to run any more
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On 2017-07-13 10:28 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 7/13/2017 9:33 AM, Rhino wrote:
>> 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:
>> =====================================================
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> =====================================================
> 
> Did you ask in the Eclipse support forums and/or check the Eclipse bug
> list?  The people who developed the products know much more about them
> than anyone else.
> 
I direct your attention to the first sentence of my post....


-- 
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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