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I'm using Eclipse 2018-09 on Windows 10 I had an imported Maven project with several modules that had an aggregate POM as the parent. In Project Explorer I switched to a hierarchical view. Then I tried to remove the parent project. Eclipse says "Performing changes..." in the dialog, and at the bottom it says "Reporting encoding changes.: (0%)". And then Eclipse becomes unresponsive. Clicking the little red "cancel" icon does nothing except make the cancel icon become gray. I had no option but to kill the Eclipse process. When I reloaded Eclipse, I got an error: > 'Refreshing workspace' has encountered a problem. > Problems occurred while refreshing local changes. It tells me that: > The project description file (.project) for [the project I removed, which still > shows up] is missing. This file contains important information about the > project. The project will not function properly until this file is restored. Project Explorer still shows the project in the tree, although it no longer shows as hierarchical. (Apparently it deleted the parent `.project`, but still shows the child projects. So I selected the related projects (which used to be hierarchical), and remove them, this time successfully. I re-imported the project, and then removed them, successfully.
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