I use Eclipse with "external" projects - i.e. projects created from existing source.
Poking around in the workspace files, I cannot find any reference to these projects. My question is: how does Eclipse keep track of these projects?
I'd like to be able to add such a project to the workspace automatically (by generating .project and .classpath files).
Windows:
<workspace>\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects\ Linux / osx:
<workspace>/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/ Your project can exist outside the workspace, but all Eclipse-specific metadata are stored in that org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects directory As noted in the comments by tk421storm, and in Jeegar Patel's answer:
In order for manual changes to take effect, make sure to do
File -> Refreshafterwards.
.projects on my system (Mint 16); is it different on Windows?
In Mac OS X, it is under
<workspace>/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects In Eclipse 3.3:
It's installed under your Eclipse workspace. Something like:
.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects\ within your workspace folder.
Under that folder is one folder per project. There's a file in there called .location, but it's binary.
So it looks like you can't do what you want, without interacting w/ Eclipse programmatically.
sfk replace -pat -binary _5552492F2F66696C653A2F443A2F_5552492F2F66696C653A2F463A2F_ -dir .metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects -file .locationIf you are using Perforce (imported the project as a Perforce project), then .cproject and .project will be located under the root of the PERFORCE project, not on the workspace folder.
In Linux after deleting
<workspace>\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects\ Does not worked.
After that i have done File->Refresh
Then it cleared all old project listed from eclipse.
You can also have several workspaces - so you can connect to one and have set "A" of projects - and then connect to a different set when ever you like.
