Eclipse projects not showing up after placing project files in workspace projects

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I ve searched for 2 days and can t find anything  I find things that are close  but not what I need   I got a new computer recently and copied all of my projects over to my new computer   I opened Eclipse and generated a workspace  which I then closed out of Eclipse and copied my projects into the workspace projects folder   I reopen Eclipse and my projects do not show up at all in the package explorer   I know that I have the correct folders in the correct directory   The closest thread I found to this is  Eclipse - Import an existing project   but even that didn t help  my projects already meet that     I have tried refreshing  reopening  fooling with working sets  etc

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I just wish to add one important detail to the answers above  And it is that even if you import the projects from your chosen root directory they may not appear in bold so you won t be able to select them  The reason for this may be that the metadata of the projects is corrupted  If you do encounter this problem then the easiest and quickest way to fix it is to rid yourself of the workspace-folder and create a new one and copy paste your projects  do it before you erase the old workspace  folders to this new workspace  Then  in your new worskapce  import the projects as the previous posts have explained

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Hi i also come across same problem  i try many options  but finally the most easy way is click of down arrow present inside ProjectExplorer-  customize View- filter-  unchecked close project   And will able to see all closed projects

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I had the same problem over and over again the solution that a have found works for now   Close Eclipse  go to workspace metadata plugins remove org eclipse core resources Start Eclipse Do File- Import General- Existing Projects into Workspace and import all the project from the workspace

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As I had imported my project from a  git clone   I had to select File- Import-  Git- Project from git -  Existing local repository

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This problems comes while  metadata of current workspace has been corrupted due to shut down Eclipse Unexpectedly  So if you face this problem just do the following steps     Create a new workspace  Import your existing projects to your new workspace      you made it

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Just because you have a project inside the workspace directory doesn t mean Eclipse opens it or even sees it automatically  You must use File - Import - General - Import existing project into workspace to have your project in Eclipse

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Netbeans allows you to do a simple filecopy  As you know  Eclipse doesn t work like that   You must explicitly  import  files and projects  If you do import  and if there are no problems  then they should show up  I d consider   a  making a backup of your existing workspace  b  deleting and reinstalling Eclipse  c  Trying another  test import

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The following worked for me     Create a new project in eclipse   After creating a new project in eclipse  right click and select import    General Import   File System Select all the folders under your project except the root one   Click finish    This would create the required meta data and other internal eclipse project file system which will display your project s files    You can also import the project directly as a file system  Follow the above steps if you are unable to import it directly

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in Eclips the Package Explorer Right click on any viewable project and select Show in -  Project Explorer   Package Explorer -  Right click -  Show in - Project Explorer   you should be able to see all the imported projects in your Eclipse workspace

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You put them in the workspace projects folder  You should put them directly in the workspace folder and then do an Import Existing Projects into workspace

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I have tried many of the option suggested but at last importing project in new workspace solved my problem   I think there is some problem in metadata files in old workspace

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Even I had also observed the similar problem  I had closed my eclipse project because of some reason and on restart some of my file added were not visible in explorer even though corresponding file were existing   Following solution worked for me  Select whole workspace  Ctrl A      Righ click and press Refresh

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Or you could try    Go to File -  Switch Workspace Select your workspace  if shown

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Here s a specific problem I ran into when downloading a project from the internet    Make sure you unzip correctly if it s zipped  you can sometimes get an extra level  Make sure you place the project in the project file  not directly in workspace  See if  project and  classpath have been renamed to  project and  classpath  You can t rename them directly so open a text document called  classpath and paste  classpath  s contents in there  saving as all files  not a  txt   classpath can be opened with notepad  Import the project from the file workspace  It will look for a folder called projects  your s should be inside it   Hope this helps

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Problem  After creating a PyDev Project  the project does not show up in  PyDev Package Explorer       Solution  This is what I do to see them all in  Project Explorer    I am using Eclipse IDE 2019-12  click on  Resource  icon at the top right corner  Now you shall see all projects show up in  Project Explorer    Tricky note  now if you click on  PyDev  icon  you will see less projects show up in  PyDev Package Explorer  Magic

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For Juno    With Source in E  workspace and destination in C  workspace    Copy project directory in its entirety to the workspace directory   e g  Copy E  workspace HelloWorld C  workspace helloWorld  Start Eclipse  Perform   File --  Import Select   General --    Existing Project into Workspace   Next    Check  Select root Directory   Select with  Browse Button  Select  C  workspace  A list of existing projects will appear   Just check the ones that are in Bold  To Be Imported  then press the  Finish  button    Review the Package Explorer and your copied projects should now be there

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Yeah     i kinda see what you need  I just came across same problem    Here is exactly what i did  Now  bear in mind  this some low level knowledge  since i m just starting  I made my life complicated  so i needed solution  I kinda found it on my own  using different directions from above answers    I switched from win 10 on HDD to linux on SSD  so i needed my few of  class and  java imported into new workspace    First i made a mistake  not using export option on windows and i just simply copied all of files from src and bin folders on win 10 to src and bin folders on linux  Of course workspace did not see those files    Solution was found in IMPORT tool  which i should have used right away      I put all of files in src folder into zipp file  and moved this file to some arbitrary folder  Home folder in my case    Go back to src folder and delete all of  java files  you won t be needing them anymore   Then i opened my empty project and selected import from File menu in Eclipse   In import window  under option General  first one  select Import Archive   Now simply find your zip file  and Voila  All is where it should be

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