Some projects cannot be imported because they already exist in the workspace error in Eclipse

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I am trying to import a project that me and my co-worker have been working on   and keep getting this error after I select--  import  then  import existing project  then click archive file  and then I click next  and this error comes up    Some projects cannot be imported because they already exist in the workspace

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In case you are using Maven  make sure that your artifactId in pom xml does not have the same name as any existing project name in your Eclipse project explorer

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In my case i had deleted the resources directory from my  metadata plugins    Go to your workspace  Enter  metadata plugins Delete   org eclipse core resources  directory

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I had a similar problem  I have the same repository I wanted to import twice  I renamed the existing project by right clicking on the project   refactor   rename then imported it again

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Maybe you get the same project name in your   project  file check it if yes  rename another name than import again

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This problems occurs because you have the same project in some other project folder As in eclipse we have many project folder  So  if you have a project in one folder and you want to import it in other project folder  then this problem occurs  So first of all DELETE the project from other folder and then import in into your current one project FOLDER

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You may have a project with same name in your workspace  Try to refresh  file- refresh  your workspace after deleting the another one with same name  A typical situation occurs when you want to re-import a deleted project

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This usually happens when you change the project directory physically without first delete in Eclipse  You can view and delete these hidden projects in the following view   Window - gt  Show View - gt  Other - gt  General - gt  Navigator   Then simply just continue with the process of import existing project

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Another way I just found   MOVE the project to some other folder and then import and if required copy to workspace

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EASIEST WAY  Right click on the project  folder that reads  MainActivity   go to Refactor -  Rename and you will get a text field allowing you to rename your project   If you get an alert saying your project is out of sync with the filesystem press F5  refresh  and try again

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This worked for me   File   New   Android Project   Create project from existing source  Location   the location of the project you want to import   You will get a warning  An Eclipse project already exists in this directory  Consider using File   Import   Existing Project instead    But you will be able to click  Next  and the project should in effect be imported

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Go to file ---  switch workspace  It will work

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delete it from eclipse      u might have closed the project in eclipse by   Rightclick -- close project      so even if you delete this project from workspace folder    it stays there in eclipse IDE as closed project     you should delete it from Eclipse IDE

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At least on Eclipse Juno  you can toggle on Advanced   Then select  groupid   artifactid  from the Name Template dropdown   That should make your project uniquely named    If you keep multiple versions of a given artifact  you can select  groupid   artifactid   version  instead    Be sure to click the Refresh button so the changes are visible   Wash  rinse  repeat as needed

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New to Eclipse and Android development and this hung me up for quite a while  Here s a few things I was doing wrong that may help someone in the future    I was downloading code examples and assuming project name would be the same as the folder name and was looking for that folder name in the project explorer  not finding it  re-importing it  then getting the error message it already existed in the workspace   Yeah   Not proud of that  Didn t click on  Copy projects into Workspace  and then searched in vain through the workspace when it didn t appear in the project explorer BECAUSE The  Add project to working sets  option in the Import Projects tab isn t working as far as I can tell  so was not appearing in the project explorer for the active working set  refresh made no difference   Adding project to the working set had to be done after successfully importing it

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This is what i have noticed for the above issue  - If the checkout folder  folder where your pom project resides  is same as the eclipse workspace folder then i am getting this issue   SOLUTION  when i used a separate workspace folder for importing the project  eclipse did worked smoothly

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It was happened to me when      I delete project from eclipse Project Explorer and not checked the   remove content from disk    Next time when I tried to import same project in workspace then got same problem   To solve I just did FYI work that every kid can do     So How I solved it    Cut Ctrl   x myProject folder from eclipse workspace to other location ie Desktop Right Click Navigator  you can get it from Window  gt  Show View  gt  Navigator  and Refresh  it will prompt following dialog   Just click Yes button and move your project folder back to eclipse workspace directory Import again  Now Rock  n  Role

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Projects in the Eclipse workspace must be unique  Note though that the project name need not be the same as the directory folder name of the project  so you can either delete any existing project with the same name or alternatively rename the existing projects

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It is very simple   press f2 key to rename project    and import multiple copy of android projects with the same package

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I built the eclipse dependencies in the project terminal and then tried to import the project and it worked

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I have a slightly different situation whereby my eclipse stops responding and I have had to kill the session  After restarting Juno  then the particular project I was working on disappeared although  project file exists  Trying to import back into Eclipse would yield the same  Some projects cannot be imported     or  A project with this name already exists  if trying to create a new project   In the end  since I was using Working Sets  I managed to find this file  metadata plugins org eclipse ui workbench workingsets xml  Manually added the missing entry and restarted eclipse and voila  it came back

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Uncheck the  copy projects into workspace  checkbox  and then click  refresh  button  you will be able to import the project

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Take a look in your workspace folder  you may have an old project there with the same name as the one you are importing  even though it s not being shown on eclipse    When you delete a project on Eclipse  if you don t check the checkbox on the dialog  it just removes it from the view and doesn t delete the folder on the workspace directory

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I had the same error because there was one more project under svn in workspace but with another name  So I ve removed it

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Try to rename the value of  lt name gt  tag which inside   project  file of your project    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8   gt   lt projectDescription gt       lt name gt Rename this value lt  name gt       lt comment gt  lt  comment gt       lt projects gt    This will work for sure  Here you are just renaming your project

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If you ve arrived at this because you have cloned a git project into the existing workspace and now you want to promote that workspace to a full fledged project then you should use the  Git Repositories  view -  select  Working Directory  -  Import Projects -  Existing projects

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go to  project file in your project and change the name of the project in name tag

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In my case  I copied one of the projects  say  Project1   from the workspace and pasted it to the same workspace  After that I modified the name of the pasted project  say to  Project2    I could not see it in the repository   The main reason was  project file from the new project still had   lt name gt Project1 lt  name gt  instead of  lt name gt Project2 lt  name gt    So  I did following things in order to get the issue fixed    Cut and paste Project2 outside the workspace Change  project file to have  lt name gt Project2 lt  name gt   Try importing Project2 again    It worked for me

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Nothing about could not solve my situation  This is how I solved    Close the IDE Remove the same name project form workspace Start the IDE Clean all project  not sure this helped  File   Import   Existing Project click refresh button import project   Done

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My problem was a little bit different   For example  the project name  what I see  was FooProject and in the imported project  I was looking for the FooProject but I could not  However  Eclipse does not let me import that project because he claims that it is already imported  And then  I have looked at the  project file of the project and I have seen that the actual name of the project was not what I see  FooProject    The conclusion  The name of the project  what you see in Eclipse  may be different than the actual name of the project  what maven see   Because of this reason  Please be sure that they are the same name by checking  project file of the project

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This warning means you just deleted project from navigator  but the project is present in the working set  Or else your working set has project with same name  so go to work-space directory and delete the project which has the same name and import again

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In eclipse click file then select switch workspace then browse and select another folder  Now repeat the same process and this time there will be no error

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You have one occult directory named   metadata  in workspace directory  Close Eclipse  delete   metadata  and open Eclipse  When eclipse ask you about workspace make sure that   metadata  isn t in workspace directory and click  ok  button to select default workspace

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I had this issue when I deleted a project and tried to import the code again  Eclipse never really deleted the project and still held a reference to the project name folder in the workspace  I had to created a new project with the same name and my code appeared as it was  I believe this only worked because the project path was never changed

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Check if you have configured Eclipse to show ALL the working set  I once encountered exactly the same problem and it turned out I accidentally imported the project into the Other Projects working set  And my Eclipse configuration didn t show that working set in the package explorer  which lead me to believe that the project was not imported yet   Updated for  Mawg   First  click the Select Working Set        Then  choose No Working Sets     This will effectively disable the working set and show all projects

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I found this after two days of efforts  It is worth trying  FAQ

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It has just happened to me too  Finally I realized that the project was already open in my workspace but it was not visible because of the selected working set   You have just to deselect the active working set and all opened projects will become visible

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If the project has been already deleted from the project navigator  then right click in project navigator  and select refresh to refresh the workspace  Then re-add the deleted project

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