Eclipse Error: 'Setting build path' has encountered error

java eclipse buildpath
Anand picture Anand · Dec 11, 2009 · Viewed 40.2k times · Source

I am using an API called jtwitter. It has a single jar file jtwitter.jar I have been working with it and maintained it using git. I hosted the code in github. For somedays, i have not touched its code. Today, when i cloned my git repo (actually my system got a crash some days back so I had to clone ) and loaded the project into eclipse. Now when i wanted to add the jtwitter.jar into the buildpath, the following error occurs.

I am giving the partial exception stack trace here

java.io.FileNotFoundException: D:\workspace\ltwitter\.classpath (Access is denied)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:179)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.filesystem.local.LocalFile.openOutputStream(LocalFile.java:377)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.localstore.FileSystemResourceManager.write(FileSystemResourceManager.java:956)

please help.

Answer

Sentry picture Sentry · Jun 20, 2011

I had the same problem, and I found out it was because the .classpath file was hidden. Removing the hidden attribute resolved the issue.

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