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I was able to edit all 18 classes in my application manually one at a time and get it published under a new name but this is not really an acceptable long term solution. I would still like to know how to fix this problem. As I said, I am able to change the package name of other applications, just not the one I care about.
Allen
I go to "application tools" then "rename application project" and I can rename a package except for the one I want to rename. In that case, I get an exception:
The box that pops up is called Refactoring
The heading in the box is A fatal error occurred while performing the refactoring.
And the error message is:
"An unexpected exception occurred while creating a change object. See the error log for more details."
Nothing shows up in the error log and I have no idea what to do. I can easily rename other projects so I think I know the process. The application works fine and in fact is released on Google Play. I want to create a second version for testing that times out in 10 days for people to try so it needs a different name. Just changing the name in the strings file is not enough for Google Play to think it is a different project.
Almost any work around that can get this thing on Google Play as a different application would be just fine.
Any help would be appreciated as most of the posts deal with how to change the name when there is no error, which I can do.
Allen
---------------update-------------------- I found the error file an here it is:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext.run(ModalContext.java:421) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow$13.run(WorkbenchWindow.java:1666) at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:70) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow.run(WorkbenchWindow.java:1663) at org.eclipse.ltk.ui.refactoring.RefactoringWizard.createChange(RefactoringWizard.java:663) at org.eclipse.ltk.ui.refactoring.RefactoringWizard.computeUserInputSuccessorPage(RefactoringWizard.java:502) at org.eclipse.ltk.ui.refactoring.RefactoringWizard.getStartingPage(RefactoringWizard.java:472) at org.eclipse.jface.wizard.WizardDialog.showStartingPage(WizardDialog.java:1271) at org.eclipse.jface.wizard.WizardDialog.createContents(WizardDialog.java:610) at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.create(Window.java:431) at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog.create(Dialog.java:1089) at org.eclipse.ltk.ui.refactoring.RefactoringWizardOpenOperation$1.run(RefactoringWizardOpenOperation.java:178) at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:70) at org.eclipse.ltk.ui.refactoring.RefactoringWizardOpenOperation.run(RefactoringWizardOpenOperation.java:202) at org.eclipse.ltk.ui.refactoring.RefactoringWizardOpenOperation.run(RefactoringWizardOpenOperation.java:122) at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.refactorings.renamepackage.RenamePackageAction.initiateAndroidPackageRefactoring(RenamePackageAction.java:168) at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.refactorings.renamepackage.RenamePackageAction.promptNewName(RenamePackageAction.java:151) at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.refactorings.renamepackage.RenamePackageAction.run(RenamePackageAction.java:106) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PluginAction.runWithEvent(PluginAction.java:251) at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.java:584) at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.access$2(ActionContributionItem.java:501) at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$5.handleEvent(ActionContributionItem.java:411) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1053) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4169) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3758) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$9.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1022) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:916) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:86) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:585) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:540) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:124) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:353) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:180) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:629) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:584) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1438) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.refactorings.renamepackage.ApplicationPackageNameRefactoring.updateJavaFileImports(ApplicationPackageNameRefactoring.java:149) at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.refactorings.renamepackage.ApplicationPackageNameRefactoring$JavaFileVisitor.visit(ApplicationPackageNameRefactoring.java:426) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource$2.visit(Resource.java:126) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource$1.visitElement(Resource.java:85) at org.eclipse.core.internal.watson.ElementTreeIterator.doIteration(ElementTreeIterator.java:82) at org.eclipse.core.internal.watson.ElementTreeIterator.doIteration(ElementTreeIterator.java:86) at org.eclipse.core.internal.watson.ElementTreeIterator.iterate(ElementTreeIterator.java:127) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource.accept(Resource.java:95) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource.accept(Resource.java:52) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource.accept(Resource.java:124) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource.accept(Resource.java:108) at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.refactorings.renamepackage.ApplicationPackageNameRefactoring.createChange(ApplicationPackageNameRefactoring.java:126) at org.eclipse.ltk.core.refactoring.CreateChangeOperation.run(CreateChangeOperation.java:124) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.run(Workspace.java:2344) at org.eclipse.ltk.internal.ui.refactoring.WorkbenchRunnableAdapter.run(WorkbenchRunnableAdapter.java:87) at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:121) Root exception: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.refactorings.renamepackage.ApplicationPackageNameRefactoring.updateJavaFileImports(ApplicationPackageNameRefactoring.java:149) at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.refactorings.renamepackage.ApplicationPackageNameRefactoring$JavaFileVisitor.visit(ApplicationPackageNameRefactoring.java:426) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource$2.visit(Resource.java:126) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource$1.visitElement(Resource.java:85) at org.eclipse.core.internal.watson.ElementTreeIterator.doIteration(ElementTreeIterator.java:82) at org.eclipse.core.internal.watson.ElementTreeIterator.doIteration(ElementTreeIterator.java:86) at org.eclipse.core.internal.watson.ElementTreeIterator.iterate(ElementTreeIterator.java:127) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource.accept(Resource.java:95) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource.accept(Resource.java:52) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource.accept(Resource.java:124) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource.accept(Resource.java:108) at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.refactorings.renamepackage.ApplicationPackageNameRefactoring.createChange(ApplicationPackageNameRefactoring.java:126) at org.eclipse.ltk.core.refactoring.CreateChangeOperation.run(CreateChangeOperation.java:124) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.run(Workspace.java:2344) at org.eclipse.ltk.internal.ui.refactoring.WorkbenchRunnableAdapter.run(WorkbenchRunnableAdapter.java:87) at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:121) 
