Issue
Is there any way to kill an Eclipse background operation without killing Eclipse itself?
Specifically, I want to kill stalled Subclipse SVN operations. Clicking 'cancel' pops up a little Cancel Requested message, but the operation still sits there forever blocking everything else.
This is Eclipse Helios on Windows 7 if that makes any difference.
Solution
Killing the task from the Progress window (Window->Show View->Other|General->Progress or Alt+Shift+Q, Q | General->Progress).
Then choose the offending thread and click the red square.
Note it sometimes takes a delay before the kill occur, you may also have to kill other thread in there to get what you want. Lastly it does not always work, if this fails I usually just restart eclipse.
Hope this helps
Answered By - Newtopian
Answer Checked By - Katrina (JavaFixing Volunteer)
