What are the gigantic *.CFS files all about in Eclipse workspace plugin folder?

eclipse plugins maven workspace nexus
stanlick picture stanlick · Nov 16, 2010 · Viewed 13.3k times · Source

I started to notice my WD drive getting full and ran a size:gigantic file search on it. It has turned up several files here:

F:\SCOTT-SHARED-DESKTOP\My Documents\JPA_SPRING_STRUTS\.metadata\.plugins\org.maven.ide.eclipse\nexus\d9d714e11cb097b3ffcec91cccc65d3e_58.cfs

that exceed 189,992 KB (189 MB)!

Anyone know about these rascals?

Answer

Doc Davluz picture Doc Davluz · Jul 18, 2011

Indeed, it's Nexus indexes. You can disable partially or totally Nexus indexes retrieval by right clicking on repositories in the Maven repositories view and checking/uncheking Disable Index Details/Enable Minimum Index/Full Index Enabled (options with M2Eclipse 0.12).

Hereunder a screenshot: enter image description here

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