Locking is not possible in the directory C:\eclipse\configuration\org.eclipse.osgi

Question

I used to have Eclipse 3.5.2 working from my Limited User Account (i.e. not Administrator).

But when I upgraded to 3.6.2, Eclipse refuses to run in the Limited User

Answer 1

Here is another reason why this message appears. It may seem an obvious thing to check, but if the read-only flag is set on the .fileTableLock file (this is in Windows, don't know about Linux) then you'll also get that Access Denied error. This arose because we were unzipping a pre-configured workspace and configuration into our users' IDE environments.