How to Clone an Eclipse Workspace

Question

I am wondering how to create new clean Eclipse workspace but having all settings from an existing one. Maybe something like cloning but without projects?

Answer 1

My preferred method is to copy both the .settings folder and the .launches folder from the old workspace to the new workspace. This seems to do a more complete job than using the export preferences option. You can find both folders under your workspace starting at
.metadata\.plugins
The .settings folder can be found under the org.eclipse.core.runtime folder The .launches folder is under the org.eclipse.debug.core folder.

(Just one of many tricks covered in my two Eclipse Guided Tour video training courses on Pluralsight.)