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I want to copy the ~/.eclipse folder from Linux to OS X so that I don't have to reconfigure it again. Please help me find this folder.

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Not really a mac person, but have you tried looking in ~/Library or something similar? I think that's where most of these things go in OS X. – jcrawfordor Jul 30 '11 at 6:43
i have searched for eclipse in the finder, but none of the results were in the /Library folder. – Baha Jul 30 '11 at 8:07
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OS X is based on Unix and Eclipse has not changed anything – in OS X there is a ~/.eclipse directory.

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The new eclipse installation probably hasn't created the folder yet. That's why you don't see it. – nmat Jul 30 '11 at 7:33
so I have copied ~/.eclipse folder to OSX, but eclipse is not recognizing any of my preferences. any ideas? – Baha Jul 30 '11 at 8:13
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The top directory in .eclipse is a number like 1881004202 so I would assume is random - so I would create a config in OSX and then copy data to that -a also files in there seem to be OSX specific - also look in directories around eclipse.app – Mark Jul 30 '11 at 8:28
my bad, the settings are there I guess. but not all of them. projects are there for example, but 'Available Software Sites' aren't. thanks for the info though. – Baha Jul 30 '11 at 8:35
I have been using eclipse for a while now, and it never created the ~/.eclipse folder. I found out that everything is located in the eclipse folder that I downloaded from the internet. – Baha Aug 4 '11 at 3:24
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