Eclipse remove name patterns in File search

Question

Where does Eclipse save the recent patterns in the "File name Patterns" by File Search. I want to delete some of these entries, but couldn't find them in any text/temp file.

Many thanks

Answer 1

Open the file <Your eclipse workspace>/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.search/dialog_settings.xml

Check all the child nodes of <section name="EXTENSIONS"> tag and change the values and restart eclipse.

Answer 2

The search dialog settings are saved in a dialog_settings.xml file in the workspace .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.search directory.

The text search page uses the <section name="TextSearchPage"> part of this file.

Note: On Unix, Linux and Mac systems directories starting with . are hidden.