[news.eclipse.tools.pdt] Re: Eclipse Not Really Saving File Changes

[Eric Rizzo <eclipse-news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karen C wrote:
> I have been using Eclipse PDT to develop and edit a large PHP/MYSQL 
> application for several months now. Things have been great, Eclipse Rocks!
>
> I had to create a new PHP project (we won't go into why I lost the old 
> one) and used Drag and Drop to load the files from localhost into the 
> workspace in Eclipse.
>
> So the actual live files are located at : C:\inetpub\wwwroot
> The workspace file are located at : C:\Documents and 
> Settings\Administrator\OPM_Workspace\OPM3
>
> If I edit a file from within Elipse, the file appears to save without 
> error... the little asterisk by the file name disappears. The reality is 
> that the live files in C:\inetpub\wwwroot did not really change.
> Now if I want to develop this app in Eclipse, I am having to maintain 
> two different sets of files... (Bleh!)

When you dropped the files into Eclipse, you got copies of them in your 
Eclipse workspace; it is those files that are being modified. I'm not 
sure why you would expect anything different - it would be quite 
counter-intutitive (to me) for Eclipse to have somehow made "links" to 
the original files.
In any case, I don't know if PDT has any special features to support 
what you want, but in general you could use a linked directory in your 
Eclipse project that points to the "live" location. In your project, 
when you create a Folder, click the Advanced button to see the option 
for creating a linked folder. Also, in the Help contents, navigate to 
the page Workbench User Guide > Tasks > "Working with projects, folders 
and files" > "Creating linked resources"

Hope this helps,
	Eric