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If I move an Eclipse project from outside of Eclipse, there's no (obvious) way to point the Eclipse project at the new project directory. The move command doesn't appear in the project's context menu, and the project location field in the project properties isn't editable. I had to delete the project and re-import it. There should be an easier way to do this. This is for projects outside of the Eclipse workspace.
I think I know which scenario you're describing here are a couple of things that are a variation of what you need does this help?: 1) From the Package Explorer if the project is visible in your current workspace use the "Copy" and "Paste" options specifying the new location for the project on the paste. 2) From the Package Explorer use Refactor > Move inside Eclipse to move a project 3) Delete the (now broken) project from the workspace that does not have the correct path, and choose File > Import > Existing Project Into Workspace to create it ... As you mention
Tod, we own the project info page right? Could we hook up a link to re-import a project whose location is no longer known or something?
Yes we do - it is a little wierd to do it this way - I would just as soon go for a wizard with this functionality.
Wizard seems fine, perhaps the wizard could also be linked to the info page. The point is that when you see that it is broken (moved on the file system externally) it would be nice to be able to do something about it right there.
[Does not seem to be Mac specific; changing Hardware & OS to "All"]
"As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009"
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