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My Eclipse with GAE broken and works strangely. So I deleted Eclipse from Application folder, but there is garbage left. I re-downloaded fresh new eclipse, but it runs with old settings, and broken GAE structure remained.
How can I DELETE completely Eclipse from my Mac? (without any kind of settings/plugins/logs etc.)
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Press and hold the Option (⌥) key, or click and hold any app until the apps jiggle. Click Delete button next to the app that you want to delete, then click Delete to confirm. The app is deleted immediately. Apps that don't show either didn't come from the App Store or are required by your Mac.
Check-in case you have any more eclipse folders (such as eclipse workspace), delete them too, manually. Go back to the desktop, select the eclipse icon from there, right-click on it, and select “delete”. By doing this, you manually delete all the eclipse files and icons and remove them from your device completely.
To remove a plug-in you need to remove the JAR file from the "plugins" directory, located in your Eclipse installation directory. Under Indigo/3.7 the "Help > About Eclipse > Installation Details > Installed Software tab > Uninstall..." option works.
The eclipse. ini file is located in the Contents/MacOS folder.
Eclipse itself will be installed where you've unzipped the file you've downloaded. This directory contains Eclipse.app, configuration/, plugins/ and features/ (amongst others).
Your workspace/ directory (in your home directory by default) contains all your projects and various settings too, in workspace/.metadata/ (see dot files if you want to have a look). Deleting the workspace will delete your own project files of course, so you would need to make sure you have a way to restore them from a clean version (for example from a version control system if you're using one).
If you don't want to delete your entire workspace, it might be worth moving it away and then copying the projects back in, leaving the new workspace/.metadata/ clean, to see if this fixes your problem.
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Add ~/Library/Caches/org.eclipse.platform.ide to the list
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