Can Eclipse refresh resources automatically?

Question

Eclipse (3.4.2 with PyDev) deals with out-of-sync resources (files that have been edited outside of the IDE) differently from other IDEs that I\'ve used, where only resource

Answer 1

Yes, Refresh on Access is long overdue ... those answers to this and similar enquires usually suggested enabling the global auto-refresh, which could take an age for large remote projects. In fact there are those who would say that Refresh on Access should have been the original (< 3.x) default behaviour ...

Answer 2

A global refresh is really missing in Eclipse. The above procedure with selecting all projects and then running refresh (e.g. F5) does not work if you have closed projects included in your selection. This means, if you have 1/2 of your many projects closed as I do, you find yourself manually Ctrl-clicking through your dozens of projects. This is quite painful. I wish Eclipse would simply ignore closed projects.

Answer 3

The global refresh actually exists in plain Eclipse without any plugins and without selecting every project in your workspace.

Basically you need to deselect everything in your project explorer and hit F5. To do that Ctrl+click the selected resource in the project explorer and hit F5.

Answer 4

For Starting up there is an option to automatically refresh files in

Window -> Preferences -> General -> Startup and Shutdown -> Refresh workspace on startup

Click it in order to have a "fresh" start in eclipse. :)

Version: Eclipse 4.12

Answer 5

I managed to solve this by creating a new "external tool" run config that executes a blank batch file. In the run config, you can have it refresh the workspace when complete. Then I created a macro using Practically Macro that 1) executes the last external tool run config (refreshing the workspace), then 2) executes the last debug run config (running my app). If you uncheck "Allocate console" then the completed external tool entry won't show up in the debug window.

Answer 6

Given that Java 7 has an api for filesystem hooks, one would think that refresh could be handled better in Eclipse.

Edit: Actually, there is a plugin that uses this mechanism: https://github.com/psxpaul/EclipseJava7Refresher