Drag and Drop in Eclipse - java project - eclipse

I am unable to drag and drop files from my finder (on mac OSX) to any eclipse project folder. More surprisingly, when I add files from directly in my finder into the eclipse workspace, I don't find it added in the eclipse workspace's view. Anybody has an idea ?

I noticed Eclipse on Mac sometimes takes really long to refresh files which made me think that darg&drop did not work. Restarting Eclipse did not help, restarting the Mac helped. In any case, FileSync plugin seems to solve this issue for me.
There is still a problem though. Drag and drop from finder to Eclipse always makes a copy in Eclipse. Moreover, when dropped the file modified timestamp changes marking CVS file dirty. I have to perform cvs update after dropping. Annoying and confusing.

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How do I remove a project from netbeans without deleting files?

I've got some projects in Netbeans that I don't want it to be aware of anymore since they're slowing down load time. Unfortunately, I've previously made the mistake of right clicking on the project in Netbeans and selecting "delete". When you do that, it gives this scary message:
"This will delete project "MyProject" so that it cannot be opened in the NetBeans IDE anymore."
If you select yes, it makes damn sure you can't open the project in Netbeans anymore by DELETING the project file that's inside the directory.
So my question is: How do I remove a project from NetBeans (8.2) project list WITHOUT losing my project file?
Just click on Close instead of Delete.
Go to File and close project what you want.

Unable to close files in eclipse

I have recently upgraded my eclipse to Mars, and .java files that were opened in my previous version are pinned and I'm unable to close.
In the image, first three .java files: CORSFilter.java, EmailController.java, EmailServiceImpl.java are stuck or pinned. I dont see an 'x' to close when i hover on the tab. I tried opening other files such as Assignment6.java and tried close all, but they still are stuck.
It does cause a havoc for having them there, but its little bothering to look at those windows while working on completely different project.
Thanks in advance.
Closing and re-opening the project in the project explorer (and afterwards opening the files) solved it for me.
Did you shutdown eclipse last time properly?
There is probably damaged file in eclipse i recommended you to
1.reinstall it.
2.right click and try to kill tab. but the x on the tab no longer work and hidden bugs/error may happened due to damaged eclipse

Eclipse Error: Cannot determine URI for /project-path/

I'm running Eclipse Luna on Ubuntu 12.0.4 in VirtualBox with a Windows 8 host and every once in a while, I will boot up Ubuntu and open up Eclipse to find this:
My projects should be listed in the package explorer but it's all empty and whenever I try to import the project again, it says no projects are found.
At this point, I usually go to my workspace folder and delete the .lock file and rebuild the workspace but is there an alternative to this? This error happens every ~5 times I reopen Eclipse and it has become very annoying. Any help will be appreciated!
EDIT: Okay I just tried deleting the .lock file in the .metadata folder in my workspace and I'm still getting the same error. Any suggestions?
EDIT 2: While closing my currently open tabs, I got this error. The projects that were open were Maven projects if that makes a difference.
so I am a little late for the party, but I fixed that on reimporting my projects.
Under File->Import.. you choose General->Import existing Projects into workspace. On the next page you set your workspace directory as the root directory for importing, which will give you a warning like "Some projects already exist in workspace". Ignore this and click finish.
After that all my projects where back in my workspace.
Good luck
To solve this problem, I re-created my workspace and imported my projects again.
Creating a new workspace is done via:
File > Switch Workspace
This is not an optimal solution, but until Eclipse fixes these bugs, this can save you some time trying to debug your current workspace.
I previously had a very small number of Eclipse plugins installed. So, I quickly headed to the Marketplace and installed my plugins.
And yes, Eclipse's downfall is expected. I personally find IntelliJ IDEs much better.

One of my project subdirectories has disappeared from Eclipse PHP Explorer and refuses to reappear

The subfolder myproject/wp-content has dissapeared from the project explorer (of course the files are still there, I can see them on windows explorer).
All the other folders and files are still showing up.
I tried deleting the project files (.settings .buildpath .project) and deleting the project on eclipse and also deleting the index on .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.dltk.core.index.sql.h2
What else can I do?
I'm using stock Eclipse Kepler 4.3.1 SR1 64-bit with the following add-ons:
Aptana Studio 3 Plugin 3.4.2.201308081736-7W7I57boG98RAi489ctbvKi7VXbq com.aptana.feature.studio.feature.group Aptana
ChromeDevTools SDK 0.3.9.201309080643 org.chromium.sdk.feature.group The Chromium Authors
Chromium JavaScript Remote Debugger 0.3.9.201309080643 org.chromium.debug.feature.group The Chromium Authors
Eclipse Standard/SDK 2.0.1.20130919-0803 epp.package.standard null
Line Number Ruler Fix (Eclipse Kepler 4.3) 0.0.1 de.cdhq.eclipse.linenumberfix.kepler.feature.feature.group CDHQ.de
Markdown Editor 0.2.3 markdown.editor.feature.feature.group Winterwell
Nodeclipse 0.5.0.201309080643 org.nodeclipse.feature.group Nodeclipse organization
PHP Development Tools (PDT) 3.2.0.201306051924 org.eclipse.php.feature.group Eclipse.org
Show Window in Fullscreen 1.1.0.200906152252 gr.scharf.fullscreen_feature.feature.group Michael Scharf http://michaelscharf.blogspot.com/
Word Wrap Feature 0.0.3 de.cdhq.eclipse.wordwrap.feature.feature.group CDHQ.de
[EDIT] I forgot to mention I've also tried to rebuild the project with the same results, and I've also checked explorer view filters in case something weird had happened but there are no filters set.
[EDIT 2] I deleted the Eclipse project files and the whole .metadata folder on the workspace and recreated the project. I had no problem at first, but it has happened again. I haven't touch any settings, just closed and reopened the project.
[EDIT 3] The less invasive fix by now seems to be a combination of deleting h2 database (.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.dltk.core.index.sql.h2 workspace folder) and deleting also the project without deleting its files which doesn't delete .build or .settings or .buildpath either, so it can be recreated without much hussle. I can avoid the problem by not closing the project (I can still close Eclipse without loosing the folder), but I still don't know what's causing it.
[EDIT 4] I updated Eclipse and plugins today to their latest versions (Now runnning Kepler 4.3.2) and the problem persists (even if I delete org.eclipse.dltk.core.index.sql.h2 and .settings, .buildpath, .project before importing the project's folder contents as a new project): I just close the project after eclipse finishes indexing it and when I reopen it wp-content doesn't show up any more (unless I force reindexing by deleting org.eclipse.dltk.core.index.sql.h2 again). I do believe this is WordPress related, since it only happens when indexing this particular WordPress deployment (maybe it's one of the plugins/theme files installed inside wp-content or something related to one of the xml files in the root folder, like sitemap.xml?).
For me this happened multiple times, on different project and different folders. Opening+closing or refreshing the project yield no success.
In my case, I have found out that this is related to the Working sets. It seems by default new subfolders and files of a project are not marked belonging to the set, so the project has a mix of old folders (included) and new folders (excluded).
There are two fixes I am aware of:
disable the working sets
Moreover, on large projects, having this mixed state working set made opening the folder structure (and other operations) very slow (3-5 seconds per level). Turning off the working set filter made it instantaneous.
edit the active working set and check the project's checkbox (which will check all subfolders).
This happens to me all the time. I'm on OSX and my projects are accessed from a mounted samba volume. I've found that if I:
open the project in eclipse
eject the samba volume
refresh the project (it will say it cant find it and ask if you want to delete
it... click no)
remount the samba volume
refresh the eclipse project
And the missing files/folders show up. If your folders are local, maybe just moving the project folder would do the same. Unfortunately, this happens very often, and seemingly more often for wordpress projects for some reason.
I'm working with a UI project (Dynamic Web Project) and my web folder keeps dissapearing too. I didn't knew what causes that.
The only thing I knew was how to reset my projet; deleting it from workpsace and reimporting it.
I know now what causes that but I have no answer on why it actually does it. I keep refreshing my workspace because I have some compressing that is done outside eclipse and for my workspace to update them I need to refresh... somehow, the freaking Close Project option is right under the Refresh option, without prompting... and this is when my folder dissapear; when I reopen it.
Try the Import Existing Project would be my guess!
Maybe that can help you find the how of it !
Hi i solve this problem by unchecking "Group by Namespaces" in the little triangle on the top-right of the php explorer.
Issue:
My app directory in my cake php application became invisible after some time. This is bad since all of my non-cakephp framework files reside therein!
My environment:
Macosx
Eclipse Kepler
WebServer: built in macosx in Library/WebServer/Documents which is symlinked to a dir in my home directory.
PHP plugin
What I tried first:
Deleted old project from UI ( retaining files on the file system )
cd'ed to root project directory and deleted eclipse artifacts like .settings, .project, etc
Recreated php project to find that the app directory is still missing!
What worked for me:
I renamed the directory from app to app_back using the terminal/linux command rn.
Eclipse immediate saw the new dir after a clean rebuild.
I renamed the dir back to app and performed another clean rebuild.
Et Voila
It seems that by upgrading Eclipse to last version (Luna), removing the project files (.settings, .classpath and .project) and creating a new project on a new workspace, I can close and reopen the project without having the folder missing from the project explorer.
It's not the solution I wanted (and don't need any more) but it's also a solution, so I'm posting it :-)

Eclipse hangs while opening workspace after upgrading to GWT 2.0/Google app engine 1.2.8

After upgrading to the newest GWT/Google app engine I have problems opening my workspace in Eclipse. On startup, Eclipse hangs almost immediately and needs to be closed. This happens only in the workspace where I use GWT with app engine, and I weren't able to consistently reproduce it - sometimes it starts normally, and sometimes I need to kill the proces and restart it. There is nothing in Eclipse error log. Eclipse version is Galileo, running on Windows 7 RC.
Anyone else had similar problems? I googled but Google is not my friend today.
EDIT: Still happens after upgrading to GWT 2.0.1.
I got frustrated with not being able to open my workspace today, and finally solved this by importing projects into a new clean workspace.
Create new workspace and open it in Eclipse (to create .metadata folder).
Close Eclipse.
Manually copy all settings from old workspace (the most important settings are stored in the .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings directory). Alternatively, you could use File / Export / General / Preferences in Eclipse, and then File / Import them, but I wasn't able to open workspace to do that.
Open the new workspace.
File / Import / General / Existing projects into workspace. Select root folder of your old workspace, and take care to check "Copy project into workspace".
Restart Eclipse and check that everything in the new workspace is working as it should.
Delete your old workspace.
EDIT: Another, and a bit better workaround which apparently works:
Close Eclipse.
Temporary move offending project somewhere out of the workspace.
Start Eclipse, wait for workspace to load (it should).
Close Eclipse again.
Move the project back to workspace.
I used "eclipse -refresh". Apparently it hangs on refresh something, the lower right corner tells you, what it's doing. For me it was refreshing the gwt runtime in a specific project, maybe trying to find an update or something. If you don't want to reimport your whole workspace, try -refresh or move this project temporarily out of the way.
I just deleted the state.dat file in the GWT project metadata, which seemed to remove the blocking and then triggered a recompilation.
<workspace>/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/<GWT project>/org.eclipse.jdt.core/state.dat
This probably won't serve as a general solution, but it worked for me and it's a lot quicker than having to copy whole projects. Maybe another file will have the same effect. I think the trick is just to "damage" the GWT project metadata enough to have it rebuilt.