[paulrbarnard]

I am repeatedly getting the “Available memory is low” dialogue. I need to change the allocation in the .ini file (I have 16G physical memory so no issue with doing this). The problem I have is that I can not find the .ini file. I’m using the 2013 MyEclipse release and the file is not located where it says in the dialogue… Also searching this forum returns the very informative information that you have moved them and INTEND to update the documentation. That post was from several months ago. How long does it take to make a one line change to tell us where the .ini files are located???

I have checked all the obvious places but no luck so far.

Running:
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench
Version: 2013
Build id: 11.0-20130401

Host:
MacBook Pro
Processor 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Software OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)

[support-tony]

Paul,

I assume you’re referring to the FAQ about the location of files after an install. If so, I apologise that it hasn’t yet been updated. It is more than a single line, though it is no excuse. Although I included an additional entry about the 2013 release, it may not be enough information, if you’re not familiar with a standard eclipse install. I will add to that FAQ soon; thanks for the prompt!

There is no common folder now so, for the Mac, the key folder is the folder you accepted or changed in the installation. You can also find this folder by looking for the file .deliverycenter.installs, in your home folder. This will contain not only the installation folder, as known to OS X, but the full path to the actual underlying installation. For example, if you didn’t change the defaults in the installation, you might see a line, in that file, like the following:

me-pro-11-ea=/Applications/MyEclipse Professional/MyEclipse Professional.app/Contents/Profile

To get to that folder on the Mac, go to the higher level installation folder (“/Applications/MyEclipse Professional”, in the example above) in a Finder window, right click on “MyEclipse Professional” entry there and select “Show Package Contents”, which will show the entries in the Finder window, open the Contents folder. Now double click the Profile folder. This is the folder pointed to by the .deliverycenter.installs file.

We’re almost there! In the Profile folder, you’ll see a “myeclipse” application. Again, right-click on that file and select “Show Package Contents”, then open Contents. This time, open the MacOS folder in Contents and there you will find the myeclipse.ini file that you have to change. If you see an eclipse.ini file, please ignore it. The ini file must match the executable name, “myeclipse”, that you can see there also.

Note that you can get to this final folder directly in a terminal by entering the following command:

cd /Applications/MyEclipse Professional/MyEclipse Professional.app/Contents/Profile/myeclipse.app/Contents/MacOS

and then edit the myeclipse.ini file.

Please let us know if this helps and thanks for pointing out the deficiency in the FAQ.

[paulrbarnard]

@support-tony wrote:

Note that you can get to this final folder directly in a terminal by entering the following command:

cd /Applications/MyEclipse Professional/MyEclipse Professional.app/Contents/Profile/myeclipse.app/Contents/MacOS

and then edit the myeclipse.ini file.

Please let us know if this helps and thanks for pointing out the deficiency in the FAQ.

Tony,

I had been down the show package contents on teh application and checked out the files under there but hadn’t gone that second stage to show contents of the second level app folder. That was cunningly hidden 🙂

Thanks for the pointer I’m all sorted now.

Paul

[support-tony]

Paul,

Yes, it is a rather painful route to the actual executable on a Mac. I’m not sure why it has to be so circuitous but I’m glad we managed to sort you out.

Thanks for letting us know.

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