Eclipse won't start, log error says: ObjectNotFoundException: Tree element

Question

Last night my machine restarted while Eclipse Galileo was open. No big deal, right?

This morning, I started my machine and tried to open Eclipse. Instead of openin

Answer 1

Rather deleting whole .metadata folder, which in turns delete your projects from workspace, try to find the .snap files and delete them. .snap files are the snapshot of workspace's temporary instance which will be saved on clean & close of workspace.

Answer 2

For anyone interested, I had the exact same problem and deleting the file .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.snap did the trick for me.