I just purchased a new Macbook Pro and installed the latest version of myeclipse, Build id: 10.0-20111028.

Now when opening a project, the javascript validation runs forever - it validates jquery and all other included libraries and can run for 30 minutes... This makes the projects impossible to work with.

I've tried to disable it in the general settings:
MyEclipse/Preferences/Validation/ - Suspend all validators

Nothing happens, it still validates everything. Is there ANYTHING I can do? I'd be happy to disable EVERYTHING, just being able to edit a file and deploy it just to be able to get some work done. I'd also be happy to download 8.6 or something but that is not possible on the site - I read that you could mail sales and get a download link, but is this actually the way to fix the problem?

Peter,

Sorry to hear you are running into this issue. To help me investigate further please answer below queries -
1. Open MyEclipse IDE, from menu options click on MyEclipse > Installation Summary > Installation Details > [Copy to Clipboard] and paste the same here
2. Clear your .log file located at [your workspace dir]/.metadata/.log, replicate the issue and attach the file here
3. Have you verified that there are no infinite loops in your javascript / ajax calls?

Peter,

We do have a bug where the validators are not being suspended on that setting. Pease look at the JS section of the following FAQ for details on how to scale back the JS, you could set it to Basic mode or Turned Off.

http://myeclipseide.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-27215.html

If you still have issues, please let us know, sorry for the inconvenience caused.

I will try the solution you proposed, thanks!