Why does Eclipse update the workbench.xmi file every five minutes?

Question

I have DropBox on my machine at home and on my work PC. I also have Eclipse installed on my home PC. I put all of the workspace files in my DropBox account for a few different reasons.

Anyway, at work, I notice that DropBox notifies me every 5 minutes that the workbench.xmi file has been updated. I realized that I left Eclipse running at home. This is very annoying.

Upon inspection, it looks like Eclipse is changing the ID's of all (or most) of the components. Doing a diff on the file every 5 minutes revealed this.

Is there a way to prevent Eclipse from doing this? Other than remembering to shut it down, of course.

I can't remember the version of Eclipse but I can find out if it's important. I believe it's the newest version.

Thanks.

Answer 1

This is the 'Workspace save interval'. Change the setting in the Preferences on the 'General > Workspace' page.