Bug 208177

Comment 1 Tod Creasey 2007-10-31 08:54:12 EDT

Do you mean that the name doesn't change when it is moved? Or that there are some leftover files?

Comment 2 Shing Lau 2007-10-31 18:05:27 EDT

Created attachment 81793 [details]
Example

Comment 3 Shing Lau 2007-10-31 18:09:18 EDT

i think simran means when you move the project to another folder, and reopen
eclipse, the Project name will still appear on the work bench. 
however you cannot open it or do anything with it just sits there.

For example in that screen shot, CardDeck project was move to another folder,
now it just sits there and cannot do anything. To put it back into ya workbench
ya will need to remove the CardDeck then re-import it.

Instead maybe it can be removed automatically, or maybe can stick in a button
on the problem occurred dialogs saying "browse for project"?

Comment 4 Remy Suen 2007-10-31 18:14:08 EDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> i think simran means when you move the project to another folder, and reopen
> eclipse, the Project name will still appear on the work bench. 
> however you cannot open it or do anything with it just sits there.

I think this is what simran meant as well. This is something for Platform/Resources to deal with. I guess the basic request is that if the project's physical folder is (re)moved that the IWorkspaceRoot inherently delete the IProject as well.

> Instead maybe it can be removed automatically, or maybe can stick in a button
> on the problem occurred dialogs saying "browse for project"?

Or this could be an option.

I admit that it's confusing for new users and is something that I've gotten used to over the many moons that I've used Eclipse for.

Comment 5 Philippe Ombredanne 2007-10-31 18:25:24 EDT

Created attachment 81795 [details]
Sample deletion dialog

 if that is so, then that should something the refresh should handle imho. and it does.
Refresh the workspace, and you will have a dialog poping up offereing you to delete the ghost project.

Comment 6 Tod Creasey 2007-11-01 08:24:47 EDT

I think the real problem is that our error reporting could be better and should have an idea of how to resolve the issue.

Comment 7 Eclipse Webmaster 2019-09-06 16:04:22 EDT

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