What is RemoteSystemsTempFiles in Eclipse?

I noticed that I had a project named RemoteSystemTempFiles which I never have created. After googling it seems to be plugin feature on eclipse, but didn't got any other idea of it.

Can any one please give me a better idea, of what could I have done and bit explanation on this folder? and also if its not harmful to my other projects!

If you want to remove the RemoteSystemsTempFiles, just go under Window -> Preferences -> General -> Startup and Shutdown and uncheck "RSE UI". Then you can remove the folder and eclipse won't recreate it.

You can delete it if you wish, it doesn't do any harm to other projects. It is created by the remote systems explorer that comes with eclipse.

In Window->preferences type 'remote'. Click on remote systems view and uncheck the box that says 'reopen remote systems view to previous state'.

Eclipse already adds the .metadata folder - why does it add extra clutter?

If you're still seeing unwanted results in RemoteSystemsTempFiles when searching for a resource (e.g. CTRL+SHIFT+R), you can manually show the Eclipse resource in the Project Explorer and remove it...

Project Explorer view > Customize View... > Filters > Uncheck "RSE Internal Projects" > OK > find it in the Project Explorer tree > expand it > remove old folders.

You'll need to remove the Remote System Explorer End-User Runtime package.
Help > Installation Details > Installed Software and scroll down until you see it.

It has several sub-packages, all of which are removed altogether with their parent package.

I've been struggling with this folder for some time now, since NO solution I've tested so far worked..

Fortunately, today I found the solution that solves this issue:

from eclipse\plugins folder remove all the (org.eclipse.rse.*.jar) files (or backup them for your confort).

This are the ones responsable for the creation of this folder.

Eclipse works perfectly without them (I do not use any functionality from those packages).

Enjoy!

I would like to add that there might be situations in which you actually do not have the RSE UI plug-ins installed. However, the RemoteSystemTempFiles will still appear in your search results :-(

Example: For instance you have used an earlier version of Eclipse, including the RSE UI plug-ins. Later you have installed a newer version, probably to a different folder, but reusing the old workspace (via conversion). This time you have not installed the RSE UI plug-ins so your IDE has no option about this damn thing (which in fact is a very nice tool while working on Remote Systems).

However, despite the fact it doesn't have the plug-ins installed, Eclipse will still update/use that old/existent RemoteSystemTempFiles repository/container/whatever and thus it will always appear in your Search Results. Pretty annoying, I know!

The solution is quite simple:

1. In only 2 steps: install the plug-in then disable it.

• select Help -> Install New Software, then choose the "http://download.eclipse.org/releases/[your-version-here]";, then enter remote in the filter box.
• search for the Remote System Explorer End-User Runtime & co. Probably the plug-ins could be found within the General Purpose Tools group, but this group may change from one edition/platform to other
• install it/them then restart your IDE.

2. After it reopens select Window -> Preferences then select the General -> Startup and Shutdown and uncheck the RSE UI. Now it is disabled even in Search Results. Additionally you may select Window -> Preferences then Remote Systems -> File Cache and click Clear Cached Files.

That would do the trick - hopefully ;-)

I had a similar issue when using the Javascript perspective. By default on the left side it has a 'Script Explorer' instead of a 'Project Explorer'. It seems it was by default showing the files in the workspace instead of just the projects. I imagine it is the same with the PHP perspective.

I had a similar issue using PHP Explorer perspective. I always had the problem that Eclipse could not save project metadata. I selected the "filters" to uncheck RSE Temporary Project. Once it appeared in the tree view, I right click to delete it. Then I can check again to keep same initial config.

Easiest way to get rid of these files is remove them physically.... go to ../../eclipse-workspace/RemoteSystemsTempFiles and remove from there..

In fact, I find it quite useful during development, especially if I'm working on a project that has configurations, templates and properties files that are located outside of my project and I have no intention to include them in the package. if you open the .project of RemoteSystemsTempFiles you can link a couple of external folders that you might want to work on and not ship or version.(look at the link tag)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<projectDescription>
	<name>RemoteSystemsTempFiles</name>
	<comment></comment>
	<projects>
	</projects>
	<buildSpec>
	</buildSpec>
	<natures>
		<nature>org.eclipse.rse.ui.remoteSystemsTempNature</nature>
	</natures>
	<linkedResources>
		<link>
			<name>CONFIG</name>
			<type>2</type>
			<location>C:/CONFIG</location>
		</link>
	</linkedResources>
</projectDescription>