Eclipse Error overlaps the location of another project when trying to create new project

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I keep getting an error message in Eclipse when creating a new project   I have created a workspace at the level     C  Users Martin Java Counter   Inside Counter there are no files but there is a directory called counter src which contains source files for the project Counter  So in Eclipse I do  New Java Project  and then uncheck default location and choose the directory   counter src   which is one level down from Counter   but it now displays     C  Users Martin Java Counter counter src overlaps the location of   another project   counter src    Now if I create my workspace at      C  Users Martin Java    which means my counter src is actually 2 levels down then it allows me  but the problem is that the directory Java contains lots of projects so I wanted to create the workspace in Counter  which has no files  which has subdirectory of counter src where my source files are   Also tested creating directory in C  Users Martin Java  and it appears to work also but I didn t want to create another subdirectory in  C  Users Martin Java   just to store my workspace for 1 project

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So  I was having the same issue  but trying to import Android code via the  Import     menu  When neither of the above two solutions worked on Eclipse Juno    Eclipse -  File -  Import -  General -  Existing Project Into Workspace  NOTE  NOT  EXISTING ANDROID PROJECT    Projects should import correctly  but should have errors  We must now attach the SDK to the project  Right-Click on the project  Properties- Android- Project Build Target Choose the appropriate build target  in doubt  use 4 0 3 in the project is newish  and use 2 2 if the project is oldish  Click OK   Once the project rebuilds  everything should be back in order    This was written when Eclipse Indigo was in vogue  and there may be changes as Google updates their tools to cover corner cases

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In my case checking the check-box       Copy project into workspace    did the trick

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Go to the actual FILE menu and create a new general project   If the project type isn t recognized  preventing one of these import methods from working  then try this   Once you add the generic project  you can then add support for whatever language you require

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Eclipse is erroring because if you try and create a project on a directory that exists  Eclipse doesn t know if it s an actual project or not - so it errors  saving you from losing work   So you have two solutions    Move the folder counter src somewhere else  then create the project  which will create the directory   then import the source files back into the newly created counter src  Right-click on the project explorer and import an existing project  select C  Users Martin Java Counter  as your root directory   If Eclipse sees a project  you will be able to import it

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In my case clicking the checkbox for  import project into workspace  fixed the error  even though the project was already in the workspace folder and didn t actually get moved their by eclipse

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I know this is older  but wanted to contribute another possibly solution   If you want to keep the project location  as I did  I found that copying the  project file from another project into the project s directory  then editing the  project file to name it properly  then choosing the Import Existing Projects into Workspace option worked for me   In Windows  I used a file monitor to see what Eclipse was doing  and it was simply erroring out for some unknown reason when trying to create the  project file  So  I did that manually and it worked for me

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I got this error when trying to create a new Eclipse project inside a newly cloned Git repo folder    This worked for me   1  clone the Git repo  in my case it was to a subfolder of the Eclipse default workspace   2  create the new Eclipse project in the default workspace  one level above the cloned Git repo folder   3  export the new Eclipse project from the default workspace to the cloned repo directory    a  right click on project -- gt  Export -- gt  General -- gt  File System b  select the new Eclipse project c  set the destination directory to export to  as the Git repo folder    4  remove the Eclipse project form the workspace  because it s still the one that uses the default workspace   right click on project and select  Delete    5  open the exported Eclipse project from inside the Git repo directory  a  File -- gt  Open Project from File System or Archive b  set the  Import source  folder as the Git repo folder c  check the project to import  that you just exported there

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Your have dropped the Project in your workspace  and then trying to import it  that s the problem   This has two solutions   1  More your project folder outside your workspace in some other location and then try   2  Go to File --- gt  new Project --- gt  Select the existing project radio button --- gt  browse to the project folder in your workspace --- gt  finish  Edited  Assume D  MyDirectory MyWorkSpace        - Path of your WorkSpace  Drop your project which you want to import in Eclipse in MyDirectory folder Not in MyWorkSpace  and try

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simply  CUT  project folder and move it out of workspace directory and do the following  file  gt import  gt  select new directory   gt  mark  copy to my workspace  checkbox    and you done

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This too took me sometime to figure out   Solution   To create a new Maven Project under the existing workspace  just have the  Use default Workspace location  ticked  Ignore what is in the grayed out location text input    The name of the project will be determined by you Artifact Id in step 2 of the creation wizard   Reasoning   It was so confusing because in my case  because when I selected to create a new Maven Project  the default workspace loaction is ticked and directly proceeding it is the grayed out  Location  text input had the workspace location   the existing project I was looking at before choose to create a new Maven Project   ie  Location     workspace path  last looked at project    So I unticked the default workspace location box and entered in   workspace path  new project   which didn t work because eclipse expects the  workspace path  to be different compared to the default path   Otherwise we would of selected the default workspace check box

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FWIW   Neither of the other suggestions worked for me  I had previously created a project with the same name which I then deleted  I recreated the base source-files  using PhoneGap  - which doesn t create the  eclipse -project  I then tried to create an Android project using existing source files  but it failed with the same error message as the original question implies    The solution for me was to move the source-folder and files out of the workspace  and use the same option  but this time check the option for copying the files into the workspace in the wizard

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