Comments on: Eclipse: Workspace in use or cannot be created Error

By: James Jithin

James Jithin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:21:58 +0000

I work on linux machine and I had to go to MyWorkspace/.meta/ location and delete the .lock file.

By: adrian

adrian — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:46:29 +0000

Great!! Thanks

By: Fede

Fede — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:31:06 +0000

Thanks a lot!!

By: basant

basant — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:03:20 +0000

thanks,it is so helpful for me.

By: works!

works! — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:03:45 +0000

thanks

By: Teisma

Teisma — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:38:01 +0000

If you cant find .lock in your folder try /.metadata folder.

By: Vilhelm

Vilhelm — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:20:18 +0000

Fixing permissions worked for me!

By: Lemzo

Lemzo — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:05:05 +0000

Hello

Worked for me. After opening eclipse again , it comes back whenever I want to save
a modified file.
Is there a solution for this ?

thanks

By: Priyanka Nayak

Priyanka Nayak — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:35:57 +0000

Hi..The infm you provided was really useful…But when I searched my Workspace for .lock file I didnt find it..
So I went to System->Administration->System Monitor->Processes Tab->Killed the Eclipse and all the java processes running..
voilà —-It worked

By: Oberon

Oberon — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:09:16 +0000

Good tip. I’ve needed to remotely kill a particular Eclipse session that has this specific lock.
cd /.metadata
fuser -k .lock