Uninstalling the Tasktop
plug-ins for Eclipse
NOTE: These instructions are for Eclipse 3.3. For those using more recent Eclipse releases, please use Help > Software Updates. Select the Installed Software tab, choose all Tasktop features and press the Uninstall button. A restart will be required.
Uninstalling plug-ins from Eclipse can be error prone and
time consuming. For this reason we outline two
different procedures for removal of your Tasktop plug-ins.
Before attempting to remove your Tasktop plug-ins, make sure to close any
Tasktop Perspectives that are open as they cannot be closed once Tasktop is uninstalled
due to an Eclipse bug. To do this, right click on the Tasktop Perspective shortcut in
the perspective bar and choose close.
Removal of plug-ins via Manage Configuration (requires
multiple Eclipse restarts):
-
Navigate in the toolbar menu to Help
> Software Updates > Manage Configuration
-
Expand the Eclipse node until you
see all the Tasktop features listed

-
Enable display of disabled plug-ins,
press the
button in the toolbar
-
Select all Tasktop features, right
click to reveal the popup and choose disable. Restart
Eclipse when prompted
-
Repeat steps 1 - 4 until all Tasktop
features are disabled. This may take a few iterations.
-
Now that all Tasktop features are
disabled, select all of the Tasktop features, right click to
reveal the popup menu and choose Uninstall. Restarting
Eclipse when prompted.
-
Tasktop features and plug-ins have
now been removed. Note that you can get an installable
application version of Tasktop from http://tasktop.com.
Note: Uninstalling Tasktop can
potentially leave you with a later version of Mylyn then before
you installed Tasktop.
Removal of plug-ins via file system
(requires single Eclipse restart):
-
Shutdown Eclipse
-
Open a windows explorer view to your
Eclipse application install folder
-
Remove all com.tasktop.* features
from the features folder
-
Remove all com.tasktop.* folders and
plug-in jars from the plugins folder
-
Restart Eclipse