How modify Eclipse locations to prevent write to user.home directory?

Question

I have tried all different settings, and yes, I m aware of eclipse.ini and config.ini and also tried different command line arguments! Nothing solved my problem!

Answer 1

This works on Windows 7, Eclipse Oxygen:

• Install Eclipse, but DON'T launch it yet
• Edit eclipse.ini and, underneath -vmargs, add an entry to change user home to be a shared folder:

e.g.

-vmargs
-Duser.home=C:\Development

• Launch Eclipse. Should see ".eclipse", ".tooling", etc folders created in shared folder, and nothing created under your user folder.