Eclipse .metadata\.plugins disk space

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foobarometer picture foobarometer · Dec 16, 2011 · Viewed 13.2k times · Source

Eclipse's .metadata/.plugins seems to consume way too much space (235 MB), is there something I can safely throw away and still be happy?

I archive my source root, and this seems to take away all my space. This is a project with several Java projects.

Answer

yurilo picture yurilo · Sep 7, 2012

In my case 85% of the workspace is occupied by the m2e plugin indexes. More information on that can be found in this thread. You can disable it by adjusting plugin configuration parameters as shown on the image bellow: enter image description here

Then you can remove .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.m2e.core/nexus directory from your workspace.

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