How to recover corrupted Eclipse workspace?

Question

I just managed to corrupt contents of my Eclipse .metadata directory. Starting up with eclipse -clean did not work out. Deleting .metadata and then importing all projects, p

Answer 1

None of the above worked for me. But what actually worked was deleting all *.snap files from my workspace. This also preserves almost all settings including imported projects. Make sure to back up the workspace before trying it though!!!