Eclipse - Android drawable image resources not refreshing

Issue

I'm using Eclipse (4.2.1 Juno) on Windows 7 for my Android 2.2 project. I have several PNG resources in my drawable folders, and I'm finding that if I edit my PNG files (Paint/Photoshop etc) Eclipse doesn't recognise the file has changed and the ADT graphical layout designer still displays the old version of the image. I've tried refreshing the project folders list, tried doing a Project->Clean but neither has any affect. The only way I've found of getting Eclipse to recognise the new image version is to exit completely and restart which is a pain.

Is there some setting I can use to tell Eclipse not to 'cache' the images and always read the latest version off disk?

Solution

That is a common problem of Eclipse that it doesn't recognize external changes for files in the workspace. The only thing I have found out to remedy this problem a little (apart from refreshing like crazy), are the refresh settings in external tools configurations. That is, if you run for example an Ant build, you can tell eclipse to refresh the workspace or specific resources afterwards. I don't know of any automatic way to do this though.

Answered By - koljaTM