Eclipse getting too slow - workspace recreation helped

Question

My Eclipse was getting slower and slower over time. Tips I found on the Internet did not help. What I did is completely deleted my workspace, created new one and reimported all my projects into the new workspace and this really made the difference.

So my question is whether it's possible to perform this workspace clean-up without deleting and recreating workspace... Maybe there is some cache in workspace which is getting big? Any ideas?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Eclipse keeps track of all changes in local history. That might introduce slowdown over time. Local history is located at .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.history.