MacOS – Eclipse quit unexpectedly (Mac OS X 10.7.4 and Eclipse 3.8)

errormacmacos

I had an Eclipse environment all wrong, than I decided to install another (newer) version from scratch. After I "uninstalled" the older version, I downloaded the Eclipse for Java Developers 64-bit for OS X (version 3.8) from eclipse.org.

After I downloaded, I tried to open and the error Eclipse quit unexpectedly begun to haunt my programming fun! Does anyone have a solution for that problem?

These are the ones I've tried:

  1. Clean the workspace.
  2. Open via Terminal with -clean.
  3. Download previous "working" version.
  4. Downloaded other version.

RESULT: same problem = eclipse quit unexpectedly.

Best Answer

This is probably because eclipse shutdown abnormally. Open the Terminal and go to the location where eclipse is installed. Then run eclipse from the terminal like... $./eclipse -clean

It should start, once it does go to the Eclipse menu and Quit eclipse. If you have any shortcuts on the desktop you'll have to remove them and make new shortcuts with the executable.

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