Comments on: Deleting (undeletable) Tasks In Eclipse http://philip.yurchuk.com/2009/07/11/deleting-undeletable-tasks-in-eclipse/ Software Development Blog Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:08:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://philip.yurchuk.com/2009/07/11/deleting-undeletable-tasks-in-eclipse/comment-page-1/#comment-1261 Ryan Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:28:15 +0000 http://philip.yurchuk.com/?p=41#comment-1261 Unfortunately neither your method nor moox's were able to help me remove my undeletable tasks. What I had done was create a new task tag, "NOTE", without realizing that one file was full of comments containing "note". I decided to remove the task tag, but the new "note" tasks remained and nothing I did could remove them, not even deleting the offending lines from the file. The thing that finally did the trick was to empty the file completely and save it. I could then paste the file's contents back in. Hope that helps somebody. Unfortunately neither your method nor moox’s were able to help me remove my undeletable tasks.

What I had done was create a new task tag, “NOTE”, without realizing that one file was full of comments containing “note”. I decided to remove the task tag, but the new “note” tasks remained and nothing I did could remove them, not even deleting the offending lines from the file. The thing that finally did the trick was to empty the file completely and save it. I could then paste the file’s contents back in.

Hope that helps somebody.

]]> By: BertlPub http://philip.yurchuk.com/2009/07/11/deleting-undeletable-tasks-in-eclipse/comment-page-1/#comment-1254 BertlPub Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:29:21 +0000 http://philip.yurchuk.com/?p=41#comment-1254 I went crazy with this as well. Don't know if it is still a problem in 3.6 (still downloading) But in 3.5 the following helped. (especially for the todo tags in xml files): - stop eclipse - Delete all .markers files found in any .plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects// directory. - start eclipse done \o/ clean all projects to rebuild the list I went crazy with this as well.
Don’t know if it is still a problem in 3.6 (still downloading)
But in 3.5 the following helped. (especially for the todo tags in xml files):

- stop eclipse
- Delete all .markers files found in any .plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects// directory.
- start eclipse

done \o/
clean all projects to rebuild the list

]]> By: moox http://philip.yurchuk.com/2009/07/11/deleting-undeletable-tasks-in-eclipse/comment-page-1/#comment-1106 moox Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:14:20 +0000 http://philip.yurchuk.com/?p=41#comment-1106 I wasn't able to delete the undeleteable tasks exactly like this. In case someone has trouble with this, what worked for me was to remove the particular tag from the task tags like you describe (which didn't delete them unfortunately), then go through double clicking each of the tags in the tasks view that I want to delete, manually delete that line and save (so it disappears) then undo and save again. That way they don't come back. Then you can recreate the task tag and all the ones you wanted to retain will reappear. I wasn’t able to delete the undeleteable tasks exactly like this. In case someone has trouble with this, what worked for me was to remove the particular tag from the task tags like you describe (which didn’t delete them unfortunately), then go through double clicking each of the tags in the tasks view that I want to delete, manually delete that line and save (so it disappears) then undo and save again. That way they don’t come back. Then you can recreate the task tag and all the ones you wanted to retain will reappear.

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