I have opened Eclipse workspace that I transfered from another computer but it does not show any projects in package explorer (there should be a lot of them). Still project's folders are in workspace folder.
The new machine where I transfered the workspace runs Windows 7 that has the read-only folders issue (more here). That is all the folders that are created on that OS are read-only and that the read-only atribute cannot be removed in any way.
Eclipse originally refused to open the workspace at all saying that .metadata folder of the workspace is read only. After turning user control to the lowest level it opens the workspace but it acts as if it did not contain any projects. I think this is because Eclipse refuses to work with read-only folders and project folders are also read-only.
Did somebody have same problem? How did you solve it? Any suggestions are wellcome.
It is not enough to move your projects in the workspace path folder, you also need to import them. And because of they are in your path folder, you can't import them again because it will say you still have them in your workspace. Move them to another folder (for example in desktop), be sure your workspace folder is empty, and then try to import them from your temporary folder in desktop.
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I am using Eclipse Indigo, and after having successfully extracted my project folder into my Eclipse workspace, it does not show up in the package explorer. I tried refreshing eclipse and restarting it, to no avail. I am 100% certain my eclipse is using the right directory and the project is in it.
What could be the problem? Thank you.
EDIT: "import projects into workspace" worked for me, but why was that necessary?
Files in the directory are not automatically picked up by the package explorer. You need to import them.
Try using the File > import, then choose
Existing Projects into workspace.
There is a checkbox that says "Copy projects into workspace" which copies it to your workspace if it happens to be in a different folder. If you start with your files in another folder, you'll see how it's copied and set up with configuration files in your workspace directory.
To answer the question, "why is it necessary to import?" you have to realize that the Eclipse workspace is just a logical container for projects, not necessarily the physical container for them.
Also realize that a directory of project-related files does not make an Eclipse Project; Eclipse must be given or generate it's own set of configuration in order to understand a project (minimally, for Java projects, .project and .classpath). Without those, Eclipse has no idea what to do with an arbitrary folder that you call a "project." That's what the Import or Create Project wizards are doing under the covers, generating those config files.
I have a work space for eclipse for a particular project, which contains many small projects, it's a workspace for my hackkerrank progress.
I'm using my laptop at home and lab computers at uni, and I use github to keep them on sync.
I use source tree and git command line as version control tools.
And I gitignored .metadata folder because the workspace setting is different on different computer therefore it won't cause a chaos.
However, it causes a problem: though I can keep every project files on sync, whenever i create a new project in the workspace from one computer, the new created project won't show up in the other computer's eclipse project explorer, I know there is import function but that is not exactly what i want, because it is to import some project into the workspace, but I am in the workspace already with all the files/projects there, I just want some reference so there eclipse can see the projects.
Any help would be greatful
I am trying to use a network folder (in windows) as my Eclipse workspace. I have looked online for solutions for a fix for networks folders with no positive results. I am unsure if this is possible to do, a quick fix, or if there is additional Eclipse settings that have to be altered.
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I have on one computer my eclipse workspace, and that folder is shared with my HomeGroup (windows file sharing). It is also shared as a network folder.
I need to access these files on another computer without having to copy and paste the source to my secondary pc.
The reason it would not allow me to access the network folder was because the folder remained in its 'read only'state. After restarting my computer, it allowed me to change the folder properties to Read/Write allowing me to access the folder as an Eclipse workspace.
We are using subclips as a SVN client for our Eclipse and I have successfully checked-out the list of projects to 'C:\workspace\myprojects' folder then I have opened the eclipse and given the workspace location as 'C:\workspace\myprojects' but it's not showing any projects even there are projects, Why?
So I have imported all the projects one by one through the eclipse feature and now i can able to see the projects but my question why should i need to import even i have given the eclipse workspace folder as 'C:\workspace\myprojects'?
NOTE: But the sampe scenario is working fine in others machine, i.e they no need to import all the projects one by one when they have given the Eclipse workspace folder as 'C:\workspace\myprojects'.
Regards,
Baji
Eclipse uses the metadata to determine which projects are in the workspace. So you have to import the projects into the workspace even though they already reside in the same directory in the filesystem. Just call File / Import / Existing Projects from the filesystem and select the projects that are already there. It's a pain, but it works.
Just because you have a project inside the workspace directory doesn't mean Eclipse opens it or even sees it automatically. You must use File - Import - General - Import existing project into workspace to have your project in Eclipse.
Actually some of eclipse configuration file was deleted. hence it was not able to show.
finally after reverting the it I can able to see all the projects.
I'm new to programming and IDEs. I never understood the concept of a workspace in Eclipse, and I don't understand it in Aptana.
With Eclipse I just put it into my web root. Not sure if that's the way to go?
Can someone explain what a workspace is and where it should go? And if not in the web root, then how do I launch a PHP page from within the EDI?
Thanks!
An Eclipse workspace is a directory where (generally) all of the files you are working on live and that stores all of the state (like preferences and such) for a single user of Eclipse. So when you create projects, they are located in the workspace. The workspace has some metadata files that control how Eclipses behaves for you.
Eclipse keeps a representation of the workspace internally, which means the workspace can get out of sync with the underlying files. To sync them up, do a right-click Refresh in the Package/Project Explorer.
Usually the workspace goes into some directory relative to your home directory, since it's private to each developer.
Workspaces are like folders where the project's files are.
When you have a local web server you could set the workspace to a new folder in the servers directory (or web root when the project should be in the main directory!) . If you want to add a new PHP-file in Aptana studio 3 just right click the workspace and select add new file (or sth. like that). After that you will be able to enter a file-name and it's gonna be saved in the workspace (folder). But of course you can also work without workspaces, just create the the PHP-File and edit it with Aptana.