Should renaming a project in Eclipse also rename project folder on file system?

eclipse m2eclipse
blue-sky picture blue-sky · Feb 10, 2012 · Viewed 30.7k times · Source

Should renaming a project in Eclipse also rename project folder on file system ?

My project file system name remains the same even when I rename the file on Eclipse.

Should I manually rename the project on the file system to same on Eclipse ?

Answer

E-Riz picture E-Riz · Feb 10, 2012

It appears that renaming a project will only rename the underlying filesystem directory if the project was created with the "Use Default Location" checkbox selected (meaning the project is created in the workspace directory). If you create a project and specify a custom location outside the workspace, renaming that project in Eclipse does not rename the project's host directory. In that case, you'll probably want to:

  1. Rename the project in Eclipse (which will update any internal references and the .project file)
  2. Remove the project from your Eclipse Workbench view (making sure that the "Delete file contents" option is NOT selected in the delete confirmation dialog).
  3. Rename the project's directory in your filesystem.
  4. Import the project back into your Eclipse workspace.

I was surprised to learn this (I tested it with Eclipse 3.7), but it seems to be logical to me. The idea is that projects in the workspace folder are considered to be "under Eclipse control" as opposed to projects that are located in arbitrary places on your filesystem.

Related questions

No compiler is provided in this environment. Perhaps you are running on a JRE rather than a JDK?

I'm compiling a project in Eclipse using m2eclipse. I set the JDK path in Eclipse like this: Windows-->preferences-->installed jres--> jdk1.7.xx path But this is showing an error [ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------- [ERROR] …

Read More
How to solve "Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration" for Spring Data Maven Builds

I am trying to work with Spring Data and Neo4j. I started by trying to follow this guide linked to by the main site. In particular I based my pom.xml off of the "Hello, World!" example file. Here …

Read More
Could not calculate build plan: Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:2.5 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved

org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginResolutionException: Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:2.5 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:jar:2.5 at org.apache.maven.plugin.internal.DefaultPluginDependenciesResolver.resolve(…

Read More