Removing an unwanted workspace from Eclipse

I was having a problem that occurred when I stated eclipse. I found that there where workspaces available in the drop down option that I no longer wanted to use.

Here is a step by step on how to remove obsolete workspaces from eclipse.

1. Go to your workspaces folder and delete the folders/workspaces you no longer require. If you start eclipse at this stage you will see the folders you just deleted are still available in the eclipse workspace dropdown. So close/cancel eclipse.

2.  Go to the folder where the eclipse.exe lives, move to \configuration\.settings and open the file org.eclipse.ui.ide.prefs for editing.

3. In the variable RECENT_WORKSPACES=C:/blah/blah , remove the paths to the folders you deleted in step one.

4. Start eclipse and the unwanted options should not be in the recent workspaces option drop-down.

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