(Eclipse) Hangs when building project: copying resources to output folder

Question

This has been happening intermittently, but now its consistent.

When I go to build the project, eclipse just hangs forever at this step:

copying resources to output folder

I saw a suggestion to remove all non-java resources from the project and put them back in one at a time, but that is impractical for the size of this project.

Answer 1

I ended up using a new workspace. A new eclipse instance didn't fix it. A new workspace and the old eclipse worked fine.

Answer 2

I was able to resolve this by using the following steps:

1) Closing eclipse - In case it does not close - Kill the process 2) Manually delete everything in the output folder 3) Start eclipse with -clean option -> eclipse.exe -clean

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

I just had the same problem, but now I've solved it.

The cause was not one really large file, but a lot of small files adding up to a large total.

For me it was not a problem to move these files, since in hindsight they didn't really belong there anyway.