Sharing Eclipse directory on Dropbox between Windows and Mac OS X

Question

This question was close to mine, but not quite.

I have a Windows desktop and a MacBook Pro. I'd like to be able to keep my Eclipse workspace in my Dropbox folder. The problem is that many project settings change between platforms: references to JREs, JDKs, and other libs.

Every discussion I've seen of this problem seems to suggest taking advantage of the source control system's ignore functionality, so that such-and-such file remains local-only and thus able to remain platform-specific. But when you're working with a real single shared folder, that class of solution doesn't apply.

Have you had luck working with a Java Eclipse project living in a single folder shared over the network, cross-platform?

Answer 1

I have my Eclipse workspace inside Dropbox with all my project folders within, but use the new-ish "Selective Sync" feature of Dropbox to make sure that the .metadata folder is not synced.

This means my Mac and Windows machines have their own .metadata folders but the project folders remain in sync.

Seems to be working so far...