I am using eclipse kelper in mac osx mavericks, it always hang. I finally got a work around solution from http://www.lazylab.org/197/eclipse/eclipse-hanging-on-startup-repair-corrupt-workspace/ Removing .snap File Open \.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources directory Remove .snap file in the directory Restart Eclipse Remove .indexes Folder Remove the \.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.root\.indexes directory Restart Eclipse Move .project mv workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/old.projects My script