What to do if Xilinx SDK won't open

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If you encounter a problem with Xilink SDK where you cannot open it (when you try to open it you see the splash screen, select your workspace, click OK, and then a few seconds later it simply closes itself without any error message), then read this.

I recently encountered this scenario and went the following steps to fix it:

1. Delete my REPO_DIR\AMDC-Firmware\sdk\.metadata\.lck lock file -- this did not fix the problem, but some people report that this fixes their problem.
2. Delete REPO_DIR\AMDC-Firmware\sdk\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\01.snap - SDK opened again!
3. However, all of my projects disappeared from the workspace except for amdc_reve_wrapper_hw_platform_0 (some people report that this does not happen to them). So I had to follow the project setup instructions all over again. Upon following these instructions, I found that many of the Fix common code compilation steps did not need to be completed, as SDK somehow remembered these.