Taking+Your+Workspace+Home

Backup Properties

 * 1) **File:Export:General:Preferences**
 * 2) Enter/browse a file name
 * 3) Make sure to copy/email this file to yourself

Backup Projects

 * 1) Make sure **Project:Build Automatically** is turned// **off**//
 * 2) **Project:Clean**
 * 3) Make sure to select all projects
 * 4) Make sure **Start a Build Immediately** is// **disabled**//
 * 5) Go to your workspace directory
 * 6) Select everything (should be just folders)// **except**// the .metadata directory
 * 7) Zip/7-zip all of the files into a single archive
 * 8) Make sure to copy/email this file to yourself

Create New Workspace

 * 1) At home, install and fire up Eclipse.
 * 2) When prompted, create a new workspace directory

Restore Properties

 * 1) In your new project, **File:Import:General:Preferences**
 * 2) Browse to your properties backup file
 * 3) Select it
 * 4) Click **Finish**

Restore Projects

 * 1) Unzip/7-zip your files into your newly-created workspace directory
 * 2) Note, each of your projects will be a directory under your workspace directory
 * 3) E.g. if your workspace directory is C:\workspaces\Ejb3AndJpa, then after extracting your projects you'll have folders like C:\workspaces\Ejb3AndJpa\Ejb3Tutorial1, C:\workspaces\Ejb3AndJpa\JpaTutorial1
 * 4) Back in Eclipse, **File:Import:General:Existing** Projects
 * 5) Browse to your workspace directory (should just need to click browse and OK)
 * 6) Select all of your projects