Where in an Eclipse workspace is the list of projects stored?

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Kris Pruden picture Kris Pruden · Oct 30, 2008 · Viewed 112.2k times · Source

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).

Answer

VonC picture VonC · Oct 30, 2008

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

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