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I know that if we put folders into an existing project and hit refresh, it recognises. But what I want to know is if I copy a project into an existing workspace and make eclipse recognise this.

I also dont want to Import because I am dealing a very large number of projects and importing each one is very manual process.

I am writing code to create projects inside my workspace but cannot get eclipse to recognise this. I also tried writing a plugin that would create projects whenever the methods are called.

Do I need to meddle with .project or .classpath files or is this even possible

Thanks

user1185025
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  • possible duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6313858/importing-multiple-projects-into-eclipse – oers Feb 02 '12 at 12:09

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If you select File-->Import-->Existing Projects into Workspace

you can select a directory(root folder), that can contain many folders (which are eclipse projects).

This lets you import many projects at once.

oers
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  • Thanks. Never realised that it was this simple. I thought it would create a high level directory with the folder and then have projects under that but that doesnt seem to be the case Also this question has already been asked before but I thought this was different – user1185025 Feb 02 '12 at 12:14
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You have to import your project your new project. Eclipse will then recognize it as a project and offer it for inclusion in your workspace.

Bombe
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  • true, and if your project folder is already in the workspace nothing will be actually copied – Kris Feb 02 '12 at 12:15