I am aware that other people have tried to resolve this issue but have thus far found a suitable answer.
The error is, on start up, eclipse gets hung up on \"Android SDK
There is a very simple way of invoking the above answers on Mac OSX:
cd workspace
rm ./.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/*/.markers
(or)
rm ./.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/Project-Name/.markers
cd eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS
./eclipse -clean -remove