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

rm -fr workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.snap
rm -fr workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.root/.indexes/
mv workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/old.projects

2013/11/28 by admin