Eclipse Invalid Project Description when creating new project from existing source

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I am trying to create a new project from existing source code  I keep getting the following error   Invalid Project Description   project path  overlaps the location of another project  with the same name  The reason is that I created that project from the source code before  but then I deleted that project and deleted its whole directory  before adding the source code directory again  I tried everything like cleaning and restarting  but nothing worked  I looked in my workspace directory  but there are no traces for the old project  There are several questions around this problem such as this Attempting Android Notepad Tutorial - Exercise 1 - More problems  but none of the answers worked for me

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Go into your workspace  and move your project source code folder to another area outside of your workspace  like the desktop    Make sure the project is deleted in eclipse  then create a new project from source from that directory   Another thing you could do is try creating a project of a different name  from the first project s source   so that the workspace will contain the new project as a functional project   Then  go into your workspace directory and absolutely delete the folder that contained the original project  or move it   Try loading the project from source again  this time using the second project  by naming it with the correct name   Or  you could try refactoring the second project back to the first s name

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Today I accidentally solved the issue   Below 2 steps may not be involved but not sure    Call from  Eclipse menu     Window Android SDK Manager  and update a   Android SDK Tools  b   Android SDK Platform-tools  packages Call from Eclipse menu   Help Check for Updates  and update Eclipse  Restart Eclipse    Steps below are necessary    From eclipse menu   File Import Android Existing Android Code Into Workspace  Browse and select problematic project or problematic projectS parent directory  Check  Copy projects into workspace   Check  Add projects into working sets   Press finish   Optional scenario   If project s  and their containing folders have been renamed with the fully qualified package names then simply click on project node parent  where you see project package name instead of project s old name  in Eclipse and rename project with old name  Eclipse will rename folder too    P S  Tested on Eclipse Juno   Edit  Many times have passed since this answer and new Eclipse and Android SDK arrived  They have no much more problems during importing existing projects  The only thing one has to consider before importing is to move project folders those ones one is willing to import  outside of eclipse workspace dir and then check checkboxes   copy projects into working sets    add projects into wokring sets   in import wizard dialog  Also I recommend doing this with latest Android SDK because it no more imports projects with dummy names and does not rename folders as it did in some custom cases

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I solved this problem with using the following steps    File -  Import Click General then select Existing Projects into Workspace Click Next Browse the directory of the project Click Finish    It worked for me

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I solved this problem with using the following steps   1  File - gt  Import 2  Click General then select Existing Projects into Workspace 3  Click Next 4  Browse the directory of the project   Click Finish   It worked for me

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paste the project source and support libs to any other newly created folder and try to import from there  It worked for me

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I got rid of my issue by changing File   Workspace and then  after the restart  reset the Workspace again

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Copy the project into your workspace  create new Android Application Project with the same name from eclipse file- new- project and voila

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Go to the  project file of your project make sure it display the same name as displayed in project folder  if not change the name  it will work

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I have been banging my head against the wall with a similar problem  The only thing that helped is following the steps in this post

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What operating system are you using  I use Linux Mint  In my case it turned out to be a symbolic link issue  Every time I tried to create the project with the symlink path  it would give me that error  Creating the project elsewhere  and then migrating it to the symlinked directory solved it for me

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The easiest way to solve this problem is just to move your s project to another folder and import it  This is because you have already had this project or project with the same name  in that folder  And  when you delete project  eclipse still retains a reference to it

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Suppose you have something like   prj workspace prj1  prj workspace prj2  And your eclipse workspace is in  prj workspace level  i e   prj workspace  metadata   If you re having problem importing prj1 and prj2  you can either move your  metadata somewhere else   prj  metadata   prj eclipse  metadata  etc   or create a sub level in workspace so that it looks like   prj workspace android prj1  prj workspace android prj2  And import prj1 and prj2 again  In another word  as long as prj1  prj2  and  metadata are not in the same level it will be fine

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Instead of import from Android -  Existing Android Code Into Workspace  You must use General- Existing projects into workspace  It s probably a solution

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Copy the code you want somewhere outside your workspace folder Create a new project using existing code from that folder Once the project is created  right click on it and Refactor   Move it into the Workspace folder   use default location

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If you wish to open a new project from an existing source code in the following way   File - gt  Import - gt  General - gt  Existing Project into Workspace   you still have the message  Invalid Project Description   I solve it just by going in   File - gt  Switch Workspace   and choosing one of the recent workspaces

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Here is what I did that worked great  I just imported an existing project under general instead of importing an android project

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There are a variety of scenarios  but  in my case  I wanted to retain the folder and it s contents  as it had been checked out from  git   However  I needed to be able to modify the source and other stuff using Eclipse   I found the problem was that the  cproject and  project files had path information that was very environment specific  and did not match my environment    What I did was this    Created a new empty folder with a different name  and created a new workspace pointing to that folder  Checked out or copied the  git project folder into the empty folder  Then imported  General  Existing projects in Workspace    The key seemed to be creating the top level empty work space with a different name   I hope this helps someone

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This problem drives me crazy as well but I know what the cause of it is  The problem is that eclipse is not smart enough to create a folder with the same name of your project within your workspace folder if it is custom   The way to solve this is to make sure all of your projects are in a folder with the name that matches your Project Name  otherwise it will dump all of your project files straight into the directory  The reason why you end up seeing that error is because it thinks you are putting a project inside another project  probably reads the project config file     I noticed this is especially a problem when not using the default workspace path  The way I solve this problem is to just add the Project Name to the end of location  So let s say you are putting a project named  HelloWorld  into  Users name Documents projects android   you would want to manually add  HelloWorld  to the end of it  like this   Users name Documents projects android HelloWorld  This would ensure that the project is put in it s own folder called  HelloWorld  and not inside some other project  Be sure that if there are any projects not within folders into a folder of the same name as the project to solve the errors

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I ve been having this problem in Linux  with a project that I renamed  removed  and reimported   Somewhere in the  metadata  it s still there evidently   I finally solved it by the following steps    close Eclipse mv  metadata  metadata orig start Eclipse reset default workspace reimport projects   This may not work for everyone  especially if you already have lots of projects in multiple workspaces   But if you re used to reconfiguring Eclipse  which I do every time I upgrade to the next Eclipse release  it s not too bad

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I have struggled with this issue myself for a while and I think the reason it happens is because  for Android  there are two ways to import projects into the workspace  1  File Import General Existing Project into Workspace 2  File Import Android Existing Code into Workspace  The errors described here are related to method 2    For method 1  there will be no overlap problems as long as you uncheck the  Copy Projects into Workspace  box if the project is already in the workspace    Edit  There is a third method that wasn t in my original post   3  File  New Other Android Existing Android Project into Workspace

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This option fixed my issue   Link   http   fledglingsnook wordpress com 2012 08 09 eclipse-issue-overlaps-the-location-of-another-project

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