Eclipse: "'Periodic workspace save.' has encountered a pro‍blem."

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I'm using Eclipse Indigo on Mac 10.7.4. While working, I get these periodic, annoying dialogs

'Periodic workspace save.' has encountered a problem.

Could not write metadata for '/.org.eclipse.jdt.core.external.folders'.
/Users/davea/Dropbox/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/.org.eclipse.jdt.core.external.folders/.markers.snap (No such file or directory)

I seem to be able to continue as normal, but I was wondering how I can eliminate these errors.

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21 Answers

The solution that work for me is the following:

  1. Delete .metadata folder
  2. Restart eclipse
user_79942690

Agree with @J-Dizzle,

I am a beginner in web-development and had a hard time solving this today. Had similar problems when I was creating a SpringBoot project in STS. Tried most of the solutions mentioned but they didn't work. Tried removing .metadata folder and re-building my springboot project but still nothing worked.

NOTE : I had multiple workspace in STS and this error occurred after migrating a project from one workspace to another.

Solution : All you need to do is restart your eclipse/STS IDE and it will work just fine.

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