Where Files Are Stored

These are some of the more important files used by the IDE:

Type of file	Path	Location
Workspace folder	$HOME/ide-5.0-workspace	Host
.metadata folder (for personal settings)	$HOME/ide-5.0-workspace/.metadata	Host
Error log	$HOME/ide-5.0-workspace/.metadata/.log	Host

In Windows XP, C:/ is used instead of the HOME environment variable or the C:/Documents and Settings/userid directory (so the spaces in the path name don't confuse any of the tools).

Note: You can specify where you want your workspace folder to reside. For details, see the section Running Eclipse in the Tasks chapter of the Workbench User Guide. (To access the guide, open Help > Help Contents, then select Workbench User Guide from the list.)