The project description file project for my project is missing

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I am using Eclipse PDT 3 5 on Vista  32 bit   It works  though eclipse needs admin rights to execute  This annoys me  but I accept it   But  every now and then  I am not sure  it may even be everytime I want to open a project   I get the error message  The project description file   project  for my project is missing      It is NOT missing  it is in the main folder of the project  It has no special flags set  it is not hidden  nor system file  nor write-protected    This is for ALL projects I have in my list  The only solution I have found so far is to delete the project from eclipse an re-add it  This is somewhat annoying   What can I do   EDIT  The workspaces are on a server volume  Can this be the problem  I used Eclipse 3 3 before  and there it was no problem with the server paths  And the server volume is mapped to a drive letter

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If you move the files for whatever reason manually  then Elipse lost the reference and output a missing project file error  but the reason is thaty you move manually the files and Eclipse lost the reference

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I had the same problem and in my case  project file was also present in the project directory and had correct permissions   This problem happened to me after I closed and reopened multiple projects quickly one after another and Eclipse tried to rebuild them at the same time   In my case Eclipse lost  location file in the workspace directory for 2 out of 5 projects   lt workspace gt   metadata  plugins org eclipse core resources  projects  lt project name gt   location  I ve followed instructions on How to get project list if delete  metadata accidentally and imported the project in the workspace manually via File    Import    Other    General    Existing Projects  After that  location file was created again and Eclipse stopped complaining

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If you only want to checkout and you delete the folder from the workspace you also need to delete the reference to it in the Java view  Then it should checkout as if it were checking out for the first time

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I ve found this solution by googling  I have just had this problem and it solved it   My mistake was to put a project in other location out of the workspace  and share this workspace between several computers  where the paths difer  I learned that  when a project is out of workspace  its location is saved in  workspace  metadata  plugins org eclipse core resources  projects PROJECTNAME  location  Deleting  location and reimporting the project into workspace solved the issue  Hope this helps

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I created a new workspace and imported old projects  I just didn   t open this workspace for a long time  I don   t know why this problem happened

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In my case i have changed the root folder in which the Eclipse project were stored  I have discovered tha when i have runned     cat  plugins org eclip resources  projects  lt projectname gt   location

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Martin Encountered the same issue with a Minecraft Mod project when I changed the Main folder location  Normally I would open the project like this This is how my path looked when I started the project I got the same  quot The project description file   project  for my project is missing  quot  Error  I later found the  project file in the main folder like this  This is the location where I found the  project file I found that going eclipse to  quot File- gt Open Project from File System or Archive quot  and navigate to your main project folder with the  project file solved the problem  My project is already included This is my first post in here hoping it can help you out  Martin

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I am using Eclipse 3 5 1 on Ubuntu  After rebooting my machine my projects in PHP Explorer view were giving the warning that the  project file was missing  The problem was that the external directory where my projects are hosted was not mounted on reboot  So I did a mount -a from the command line and the Eclipse recognized the files

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I had the same problem  and I haven t gotten that error since I close the project before I close myEclipse and don t tidy up the default location   My project source and compiled files are outside the default workspace but there are stubb folders created by default by myEclipse in the default workspace   When I setup the project  there are two  project files - one in the default workspace that points to the working dir  and one  project in my chosen directory

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lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8   gt   lt projectDescription gt   lt name gt Lynxster lt  name gt   lt comment gt  lt  comment gt   lt projects gt   lt  projects gt   lt buildSpec gt   lt  buildSpec gt   lt natures gt   lt  natures gt   lt  projectDescription gt    in the name tag give the name of the project folder and save this file with  project extension  amp  paste it in the project folder   this worked for me

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If you keep a backup of your worskpace folder  then all you need to do is restore the following folder from the backup   workspace  metadata  plugins org eclipse core resources

[eclipse] The project description file (.project) for my project is missing

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