Bug 208177 - [Workbench] Removal of non-existent projects
Summary: [Workbench] Removal of non-existent projects
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.4   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform UI Triaged CLA
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Keywords: helpwanted
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Reported: 2007-10-30 23:25 EDT by simran CLA
Modified: 2019-09-06 16:04 EDT (History)
2 users (show)

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Example (29.15 KB, image/jpeg)
2007-10-31 18:05 EDT, Shing Lau CLA
no flags Details
Sample deletion dialog (7.54 KB, image/png)
2007-10-31 18:25 EDT, Philippe Ombredanne CLA
no flags Details

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Description simran CLA 2007-10-30 23:25:12 EDT
When a project gets moved to another location, Eclipse IDE still shows the project name there. 
Its a minor issue, however it seems more convenient if it gets automatically removed when project path is not found.
Comment 1 Tod Creasey CLA 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 CLA 2007-10-31 18:05:27 EDT
Created attachment 81793 [details]
Example
Comment 3 Shing Lau CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 2019-09-06 16:04:22 EDT
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.