[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Project disappeared

[Simon Hobbs <info@xxxxxxxxxx>]

G. Erickson wrote:
> Eric Rizzo wrote:
> > Garyl Erickson wrote:
> > > <snip> ... setup info. When I opened up Eclipse this morning, I got nothing but 
> > > a welcome to Eclipse view. What happened to the previous view of my 
> > > project? How do I get it back? I've tried changing workspaces, but I 
> > > get the same thing.
> >
> > The only way this could happen (baring some huge bug that no one has 
> > reported before) is that either the contents of your workspace 
> > directory  was deleted/moved
>
> The source code files I was working on are still where they were checked 
> out -- it's just that Eclipse can't see them.


My problem is similar. I have a workspace pointing to another local 
server. I opened Eclipse and it quite rightly warned me and I canceled 
and started over. I connected the server and reopened Eclipse. This time 
there were no warnings, but there was also nothing in the workspace 
navigator view.

I tried opening another instance of Eclipse and selecting the workspace, 
but it told me that it was already selected. OK. Close the second instance.

I tried creating a new project by Importing from CVS. This was 
successful, and it created the project right next to the other projects 
that Eclipse was no longer seeing. So, it is clear that just having the 
files there does not the project make.

So, something was killed in the .metadata directory... I had a 
look/search in .log .lock .version.ini etc and none of these files 
contain a reference to the correctly displaying projects (let alone the 
lost projects).

I also searched the Eclipse installation directory for hints of any 
settings that might be defining the hidden and not-hidden projects.

Here is my version info. Thanks
Version: 3.2.2 Build id: M20070212-1330