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

You can try copying the workspace/.metadata folder. It mainly contains plugin information, and it is possible that you don't have some of the plugins. The specific folder that contains important settings is .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings. See this article