How to import an existing directory into Eclipse

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I am on a mac  but I don t think it will make a difference  I have a directory that I want to fully import add into Eclipse  What I did is this    Right click import  General  rarr  Existing Projects into Workspace   Then when I click browse for either root directory or archive file and select the folder I can t click finish  The folder is empty and just contains a few folders but for some reason I can t click finish

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I Using below simple way to create a project 1- First in a directory that desire to make it project, create a .project file with below contents:

<projectDescription>
    <name>Project-Name</name>
    <comment></comment>
    <projects>
    </projects>
    <buildSpec>
    </buildSpec>
    <natures>
    </natures>
</projectDescription>

2- Now instead of "Project-Name", write your project name, maybe current directory name

3- Now save this file to directory that desire to make that directory as project with name ".project" ( for save like this, use Notepad )

4- Now go to Eclips and open project and add your files to it.

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These days  there s a better solution for importing an existing PHP project  The PDT plugin now has an option on the New PHP Project dialog just for this  So   From File- New- PHP Project

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There is no need to create a Java project and let unnecessary Java dependencies and libraries to cling into the project  The question is regarding importing an existing directory into eclipse  Suppose the directory is present in C  harley mydir  What you have to do is the following    Create a new project  Right click on Project explorer  select New -  Project  from the wizard list  select General -  Project and click next   Give to the project the same name of your target directory  in this case mydir   Uncheck Use default location and give the exact location  for example C  harley mydir Click on Finish   You are done  I do it this way

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For Spring Tool Suite I do   File - gt  Open projects from File System

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The thing that works best for me when that happens is     Create a new eclipse project JAVA  Take your source file  contents of the src folder     and drag from finder and drop into the src folder in eclipse IDE Make sure you add your external jars and stuff and tada you re done

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The Eclipse UI is a little bit confusing   The Import -   Existing projects into workspace  actually means import  Existing Eclipse projects into workspace   That s why you can t click on finish  the import option looks for a  project file  the file used by Eclipse to store the project options  in the directory that you have chosen   To import existing source code that doesn t have an Eclipse project file you have the following options  I suppose that you want to create a Java project     New project inside the workspace dir  Create a new empty Java project into the workspace  File- New- Java Project   Then right click on the source folder and choose Import   - General- File system then choose your files  and it will make a copy of your files    Tip  you can drag amp drop your files from the Finder into the src folder  Create an eclipse project in your existing dir  Create a new Java project  but in the  New Java Project  window    Un check the Use default location option  and choose the directory where is your non-Eclipse project  Click Next and configure the sub-directories of your non-Eclipse project where the source files are located  And you are done

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