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| <h1>Setting local history preferences</h1> |
| <p>To indicate the level of local history that should be kept for each resource in the Workbench:</p> |
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| <li>Open the <a class="command-link" href= |
| 'javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.FileStates)")'> |
| <img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.svg" alt="command link"> <b>General > Workspace > Local |
| History</b></a> preference page.</li> |
| <li>In the <b>Limit history size</b> field, specify whether you want to limit the local history size using |
| following options.</li> |
| <li>In the <b>Days to keep files</b> field, type the number of days that you want to keep records for any one |
| Workbench resource. For example, if you type 7, then a history of saved states from the last seven days will be |
| kept.</li> |
| <li>In the <b>Maximum entries per file</b> field, type the number of states to keep for any one Workbench resource. |
| Note that when you exceed the number of entries per file, the oldest changes are discarded to make room for the |
| newer changes.</li> |
| <li>In the <b>Maximum file size (MB)</b> field, type the maximum file size (in MB) of a resource for which a local |
| history should be kept. If the size of the resource exceeds the maximum amount of file size allocated, no local |
| history is kept for that resource.</li> |
| <li>Click <b>OK</b> to set your preferences and close the Local History Preferences page.</li> |
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| <h3 class="related">Related concepts</h3><a href="../concepts/concepts-17a.htm">Local history</a><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/concepts-12.htm">Resources</a> |
| <h3 class="related">Related tasks</h3><a href="tasks-70.htm">Comparing resources with the local history</a><br> |
| <a href="tasks-87.htm">Replacing a resource with local history</a><br> |
| <a href="tasks-87b.htm">Restoring deleted resources from local history</a> |
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