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Dan_Skaggs
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June 22, 2014
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ColdFusion Builder 3 Settings Reset on Restart

  • June 22, 2014
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I've downloaded the ColdFusion Builder 3 trial and am experiencing some odd and very annoying behavior.

I've customized some code editor text font and color settings. I've added an entry to the CF Servers panel for an instance of ColdFusion 10 running inside a VMWare virtual server on my laptop.

When I restart Eclipse, all the code customizations I've made are reverted back to the default install settings and the entry in my CF Servers panel is gone.

I've been an IntelliJ user for well over a year, but in doing much more cfscript-based development the CF Plugin for IntelliJ is proving to be a hindrance so I thought I'd give CFB 3 a try and see if there were any improvements over CFB 2. However, I can't take this kind of behavior. Hopefully someone can give me a setting or someone else has seen this before and can give me an idea of where to start looking.

I have CF Builder installed as a plugin into Eclipse Kepler 64-bit for Mac. I added the CF Builder update site and have updated to CF Builder 3.0.0.290000. I also previously installed as the standalone version with no additional plugins and experienced the same behavior.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Dan

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Charlie Arehart
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Charlie ArehartCommunity Expert
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June 24, 2014

Dan, that certainly is not expected behavior. But I would suspect the problem is with CFB saving its settings to the workspace.

So first, can you confirm that the workspace (shown when you launch CFB, or viewable via the File>Switch Workspace menu command) is indeed someplace that you have permission to write to? Since you’d be the one launching CFB, it would seem that the folder would need permissions for your account.

Second, related to that, can you try just using a new workspace? Yes, that will cause loss of all your settings, but it’s a good way to try to see if a problem may go away (which otherwise seemed instead to be a “bug” in CFB. I’ve seen it help for years.) And to be clear, you can always switch back to your original workspace if it doesn’t help, or to review what settings you may want to carry into the new one if you decide to stick with that.

Let us know if that helps.

/charlie

/Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart. org)
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Dan_SkaggsAuthor
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June 24, 2014

Hey Charlie,

My workspaces are at the root of my home directory (/Users/dskaggs/) and are owned and writable by the user account I'm logging in as.

I did create a completely new workspace alongside the original workspace yesterday and observed the same issues (using the same install of CFB as a plugin to Eclipse).

I have noticed today that the resetting of the color and formatting changes have not occurred on every Eclipse restart (I've not been able to see a pattern of when they reset vs when they do not) but if I configure a server in the CF Servers panel and restart, it disappears every time.

The new workspace I created had one CF project in it that was not under any kind of source control and was not in any DropBox folder just to rule out some external application overwriting those settings files.

Charlie Arehart
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Charlie ArehartCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 24, 2014

That’s curious, indeed. I’d only next wonder if you may see more in either logs or views (like the progress view and others).

HTH.

/charlie

/Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart. org)
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Kaif_Akbar
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June 23, 2014

What are the exact version for following are you using:-

  • MAC O.S. and Eclipse for plugin installation
  • MAC O.S. for standalone installation
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Dan_SkaggsAuthor
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June 23, 2014

Mac OS X - 10.9.3 for both installs

Eclipse Standard 4.3.2 64-bit for Mac for the plugin installation

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Kaif_Akbar
Inspiring
June 23, 2014

Please check this behavior on Eclipse 3.6.2 Cocoa and Mac OS X v10.6 as below are the tech specification for CB3 on MAC machine:-

Mac OS

  • Intel® processor
  • Mac OS X v10.6
  • 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended)
  • 1.5GB of available hard-disk space (2GB recommended)
  • Java Virtual Machine: Oracle JRE 1.6
  • DVD-ROM drive
  • Eclipse 3.6.2 Cocoa (32 bit or 64 bit) for plug-in installation

Tech specs | Adobe ColdFusion Builder 3

Carl Von Stetten
Carl Von Stetten
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June 23, 2014

Dan,

Any particular reason you went the Eclipse plug-in route?  Why not just install CFBuilder as a standalone application?

-Carl V.

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Dan_SkaggsAuthor
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June 23, 2014

I actually did both and experienced the same behavior. I have always used my own install of Eclipse so that I can better manage what version I'm running. In the past CFB stand-alone didn't allow you to install your own plugins. I don't think that's the case now but old habits die hard.

Carl Von Stetten
Carl Von Stetten
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June 23, 2014

Dan,


Gotcha.  I run on Windows 7 64-bit, and haven't seen the problem you are having.  Also, I've installed my own plugins into CFBuilder 2 and 3 without issue.  I did try running CFBuilder 2 as a plugin on Eclipse because it was the only way to get a 64-bit setup on Windows (no 64-bit standalone installer), but that is no longer the case with CFBuilder 3 (I used the new 64-bit installer).

I hope Adobe staff can help sort out your issue!

-Carl V.

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