file inaccessible

Hello.

I have an application, Eclipse, that suddenly does not start. I'm fairly sure its not the application that is the problem, though it might be of course.

Eclipse is a java program. I start it from a link to the executable that resides on my desktop. After the weekend, this link no longer works. When I click on the startup link, I now get a message saying that the startup.jar file is inaccessible. However, when I go directly to this jar file's location and double click on it, it works.

Why is the startup.jar file inaccessible to the eclipse.exe? Or, more importanlty, how did this somehow change over the weekend.

Thanks!

 

is there more than one machine invovled here?

uinstall/reinstall the prog.

name the path to the .jar in question. is it there? search for multiple .jar of the same name maybe. recreate u'r link directly to the jar file since that does seem to work.

 

jar path

Thanks for your ideas. Here's my responses.

Mulitple Machines? The application is on the local machine, if that's what you mean.

The jar certainly exists. And it exists where it should exist, as far as the application is concerned I mean.

Opening the application is not a problem since I can just hit the jar file itself. I am just puzzled as to what could have changed.

 

i'm not much on java but ... executables - if not directly specificed by full path - need to reside in the path environment variable. eg - start/run CMD and type PATH and if u'r jar doesn't reside somewhere in that variable, it won't run unless the calling routine paths it specifically as in x:\path\executable.jar or such. executable.jar by itself will not work

pure guess tho as this is java