Ubuntu crashed, Eclipse lost .metadata, Java Perspective gone, missing, lost
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I am running Eclipse Galileo on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Ubuntu crashed on me today, and after rebooting, I found that Eclipse has completely lost the Java Perspective (it's like the perspective and all associated views never existed) and the .metadata dir in my workspace is empty except for version.ini.
What's up with that? Why did it happen? How can I prevent it? How can I recover from it?
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