Eclipse doesn’t load/can’t open

Sometimes Eclipse, the IDE doesn’t open and you realize that usually after about 10 minutes. Although there are many reasons for this, there is a common solution. Try it and hope it works.

Here are the steps to solve this problem.

  • Go to your workspace location on your machine.
  • Go into .metadata –> .plugins –> org.eclipse.core.resources.
  • In this folder, you might find a .snap file as shown below

.snap

  • Delete this .snap file.
  • Restart your eclipse and it should start immediately.

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