New Pydev has blown the install of xy/eclipse and can't recover

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If relevant, please answer to the following questions:
1. What version of Python(x,y) have you installed?
I had a Very recent install (sorry It blew away)
I was updating pydev and after it seemed to update correctly the eclipse
would open with the message Could not open the editor: No editor descriptor
for id org.python.pydev.editor.PythonEditor

2. Which components have you installed (Python(x,y) installer: component
page):
    a. Have you selected the "Recommended" component selection? most components
    b. Have you selected the "Full" component selection?
c. Have you selected manually plugins in the component list? What
plugins? selected a "few" others...Sorry did not record...
3. Have you selected the option "Customize installation directories"?
a. Yes
    b. No<<<<<<<
4. If the answer to 3. is yes, what installation directories have you
chosen?
5. Where did you install Python(x,y) itself?
    a. default path<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
b. custom path, which one?
6. Have you installed Python(x,y):
    a. For "Current user only"<<<<<<<<<<<<<
    b. For "All users"
7. What is your operating system?
a. Windows XP
    b. Windows Vista<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
8. When you installed Python(x,y), were you logged in as :
a. a regular user
    b. an administrator of the machine<<<<<<<<<<<
9. If you are using Windows Vista, have you installed Python(x,y):
    a. simply by double-clicking on the installer<<<<<<<<<<<<<
    b. by right-clicking on the installer and selecting "Run as an
administrator"
10. Regarding installed softwares on your machine, how did you clean your
machine before installing Python(x,y) (multiple answers are possible):
a. you didn't do anything, you installed Python(x,y) directly on your
machine without precaution<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
b. you uninstalled any previous Python distribution (including the
official .msi)
c. you cleaned the Windows registry by removing all Python-related keys
d. you cleaned the environment variables by removing all deprecated
entries

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.I "uninstalled Python XY and deleted the remaining directories 
specifically related to xy and eclipse under the xy program directory (not
other components)
2. I re-installed only to find the same behavior.....(I specified a new
working directory for eclipse but somehow (registry I guess, it stll had
info on the "most recent used files list"
3. I attempted to run an update but the updater said that all was up to
date (and it seemed to check the pydev site)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Curious,, the Main Xy icon no longer produces any output,(when clicked),
does not seem to start anything, and no errors, So among other things it
would seem that the Python path is messed up.

It was working fine (although I had not fully explored all the packages, I
had looked at a bunch and was preparing to make more use.... until the most
recent pydev install/update... I am a bit concerned that I might have to
really wipe the base python install in the python26 directory, which I
would clearly rather not since there is a bunch of Django dev stuff
(although Im mostly using virtual env now)

I'm thinking I just need to wipe eclipse compleatly and do a stand alone
install of it, (I have one other instance already for other work)but I'm
not exactly sure how...

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tombran...@gmail.com on 7 Apr 2010 at 10:04

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Sort of surprisingly,, I successfully updated my non xy instance of eclipse.. 
which
has many more Eclipse plug-ins and all seems fine.... I also manually inspected 
my
windows environment python path and did not see any obvious issues,,, and I 
cannot
figure out how to "really wipe" the xy eclipse

Original comment by tombran...@gmail.com on 7 Apr 2010 at 11:03

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I had a similar problem after upgrading to Python(x,y) 2.6.5.6 from 2.6.5.3.

Finally resolved the issue by upgrading to Eclipse 3.6 and downloading PyDev 
1.6.4 from the Eclipse Marketplace (new in 3.6).  Before installing the new 
Eclipse I completely removed the eclipse directory from Pythonxy (first ran 
uninstaller .exe files in directories, then manually removed remaining files).

Unfortunately, now Python(x,y) does not know about the Eclipse install, but it 
is not difficult to just create a shortcut to the eclipse.exe file.

Original comment by wikicl...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2011 at 10:27

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See debian bug #587657, some info and useful tips there.

Original comment by bleicher...@googlemail.com on 18 Mar 2011 at 3:56

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Original comment by grizzly.nyo on 2 Jul 2011 at 6:12

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