When Eclipse goes bad

Just a quick tip for when CFEclipse / ColdFusion Builder goes bad :)

Eclipse (which ColdFusion Builder and CFEclipse are built on) has an "Installation History" tab which lets you roll back to a previous configuration. This is dead handy if you install a plugin which doesn't work (the recent SVN updates broke mine!). So enough words - where is it?

Go to "Help -> Install New Software..."

Select the "What is already installed?" link

Choose the "Installation History" tab, pick a previous version and hit the revert button.

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3 comments

1. I knew you could uninstall plugins but didn't know you could just rollback Eclipse like that: good tip!
   
   Comment by Brian Swartzfager – May 18, 2010
2. You can get to it also by
   
   Help > About Eclipse SDK > Installlation Details very handy, has also got me out of a few scrapes.
   
   Comment by Big Mad Kev – May 18, 2010
3. Ah - that update to subversive broke for me too.
   
   Turns out that they've added some additional password security stuff and something weird happened with the connectors.
   
   Anyway, I ended up uninstalling subversive and the connectors and doing a clean install. I think I had to do two restarts to get the connectors functioning properly, but now all is well! :)
   
   Comment by Stephen Moretti – May 19, 2010