Eclipse change project files location

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I have an Eclipse project  Flex Builder  of which the actual files have changed location on the drive  When I start Eclipse I can see the project listed but there are no actual files listed  Right clicking the project and selecting properties will show me the old path where the files used to be stored but I can t change it   How can I change the file location of an Eclipse project where it will look for the files after the project has been created

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If you have your project saved as a local copy of a repository  it may be better to import from git  Select local  and then browse to your git repository folder  That worked better for me than importing it as an existing project  Attempting the latter did not allow me to  finish

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You can copy your  classpath and  project files to the root of the new project directory and then choose  Import     from the file menu  and select  General Existing Projects into Workspace   In the resulting dialog  locate the root of the new project directory and finish   Make sure that you have deleted the old project from the work space before importing

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I moved my default git repository folder and therefore had the same problem  I wrote my own Class to manage eclipse location and used it to change the location file           File locationfile                new File   lt workspace gt                           metadata  plugins org eclipse core resources  projects                          lt project gt                           location             byte data     Files readAllBytes locationfile toPath              EclipseLocation eclipseLocation   new EclipseLocation data            eclipseLocation changeUri   lt new path to project gt              byte newData     eclipseLocation getData             Files write locationfile toPath   newData     Here my EclipseLocation Class   public class EclipseLocation        private byte   data      private int length      private String uri        public EclipseLocation byte   data            init data              public String getUri             return uri             public byte   getData             return data              private void init byte   data             this data   data             this length    data 16    256    data 17           this uri   new String data 18 length                 public void changeUri String newUri             int newLength   newUri length            byte   newdata   new byte data length   newLength - length                     int y   0          int x   0             header         while y  lt  16  newdata y      data x                length         newdata 16     byte   newLength   256           newdata 17     byte   newLength   256            y    2          x    2             Uri         for int i   0 i  lt  newLength i                          newdata y       byte  newUri charAt i                     x    length             footer         while y  lt  newdata length  newdata y      data x              if y    newdata length              throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException             if x    data length              throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException             init newdata

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There is now a plugin  since end of 2012  that can take care of this  gensth ProjectLocationUpdater on GitHub

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Much more simple  Right click -  Refactor -  Move

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Using Neon - just happened to me too  You would have to delete the Eclipse version  not from disk  in your Project Explorer and import the projects as existing projects  Of course  ensure that the project folders as a whole were moved and that the Eclipse meta files are still there as mentioned by  koenpeters   Refactor does not handle this

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This link shows how to edit the eclipse workspace metadata to update the project s location manually  useful if the location has already changed or you have a lot of projects to move and don t want to do several clicks and waits for each one  https   web archive org web 20160421171614 http   www joeflash ca blog 2008 11 moving-a-fb-workspace-update html

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