I Broke my Workspace AGAIN??

Classic Servoy
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After having to ctrl_alt_del out of a hung Servoy run (writing an XML File) I found my servoy developer would not open, splash screen the the 5.b text then it closed again.

I’ve had this before a couple of weeks ago and with Roberst help realised it was a broken workspace. I’ve lost a dyas effort again (though I may still be able to recover some of the forms and code changed today with a text viewer).

Q. Why does the workspace break?
Q. Is there something I can check or replace to recover my workspace?

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I had this also, most of the time, the subversive, libs where damaged or something. :o
I personally never lost any method or form that I changed

after that I switched over to subclipse, and never had the problem again (broken workspace)

but y ou can easily restore your workspace.

just move the .metadata folder from your workspace and open Servoy again. You start clean

Now import in Eclipse your current projects (I think: Import, general, projects… outof my head) and you are back to go.
if you use svn, you have to share your projects again

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Thanks Harjo - I created a new WK Space and did the import on that and it appears (so far :D ) thats even the SVS has been broaught back in.

We’re puttin a script in tomorrow to run every hour on the workspace and twice a day on the entire Servoy dir!

Bit of overkill but until we can feel safe that Servoy will keel the workspace intact looks like the only way to go!

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Hi Ian,

Kahuna:
I created a new WK Space and did the import on that and it appears (so far :D ) thats even the SVS has been broaught back in.

That’s my experience too. The SVN meta data seems to come with it. Very nice.

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ROCLASI:
Hi Ian,

Kahuna:
I created a new WK Space and did the import on that and it appears (so far :D ) thats even the SVS has been broaught back in.

That’s my experience too. The SVN meta data seems to come with it. Very nice.

I watched your VUG - very timely- :D Had clumps of hair in my hand at the time :( :shock: :oops: :D

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Kahuna:
Bit of overkill but until we can feel safe that Servoy will keel the workspace intact looks like the only way to go!

this is not servoy’s problems but a problem of the plugins that you install
Dont use subversive but use subclipse then the problem you are having wont happen.

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Thanks Johan - but I thought all the comments I’d heard from Servoy was that Subversive was the preferred option for SVN? :?

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all the developers that develop servoy itself are using subclipse.

Only in the beginning of 4.0 there was a performance bug in subclipse and because of that some support people moved to subversive and told the rest of the world to use that.
But it seems that subversive has way more serious bugs

That performance bug is already fixed long time ago, besides that, subclipse is from the makes of subversion itself. So new features are first always coming to subclipse because thats how they use it themself.

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jcompagner:
all the developers that develop servoy itself are using subclipse.

Only in the beginning of 4.0 there was a performance bug in subclipse and because of that some support people moved to subversive and told the rest of the world to use that.

Thanks Johan. Can you advise on set-up with SubClipse - we’ve been using Projectlocker is there some similar organisation for Subclipse?

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Hi Ian,

You can use either tool with Projectlocker. They are both Subversion clients/frontends.

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Kahuna:

jcompagner:
all the developers that develop servoy itself are using subclipse.

Only in the beginning of 4.0 there was a performance bug in subclipse and because of that some support people moved to subversive and told the rest of the world to use that.

Thanks Johan. Can you advise on set-up with SubClipse - we’ve been using Projectlocker is there some similar organisation for Subclipse?

subclipse can just be installed from the help->install new software (in servoy 5+ because we added the default urls for people to use: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x)

Only thing is that i dont know what happens if you already have subversive installed, because then you would have 2 svn clients that could bite. I think harjo did that switch so maybe he call tell a bit more.

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I am working on a screencast that explains how to migrate from Subversive to Subclipse.
Stay tuned.

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ROCLASI:
I am working on a screencast that explains how to migrate from Subversive to Subclipse.
Stay tuned.

Excellent Robert - we’ve a free half hour this afternoon - will it be ready :shock: :D

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I am doing my best ;)

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I talked my tips & knowlegde about switching over to subclipse over the phone with Robert,
He will take that into his screencast.

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Screencast is posted at http://guides.roclasi.com/subversive2subclipse/ .

Oops! I see I forgot one thing in the video.
IMPORTANT: also disconnect/unshare your resources!
I uploaded a new version of the video where it mentions this.

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Thanks Robert!