Reputation:

Eclipse project already exists

I deleted a project in my workspace, then tried to create a new project with the same name. Eclipse told me that it overlaps the location of another project (the one I just deleted). How do I fix this?

Upvotes: 22

Answers (17)

abdul rashid

Reputation: 750

In 2021, Using Ubuntu 20 here is simple way to remove it.

In Eclipse main Menu

Window -> Preferences

In the search type recent workspaces

Select and delete the project. click apply changes

Upvotes: 0

Able Jhon

Reputation: 1

I met this problem just and I just figure out the main reason cause this problem is your copying pom.xml from another already existing project in your workspace. So the way is find the pom.xml in your project folder and rename <name>conflicted Project name</name>.

Upvotes: 0

Christian Meyer

Reputation: 625

If you need a 100% risk-free strategy, just right click the project and select 'export', and put it back where it was. Then, you can either continue using the project in your current directory (with no more popups) or switch over to the directory you were working in before. The side effect of the former is that you will have a duplicate project taking up a small amount of space. If anything, finish up what you need to do in the current directory, then pull (via git) from the original directory. Or, delete the project in the current directory, and import from the original directory to the target directory for the second time - though now, since it is the proper way, the issue will be resolved.

Upvotes: 0

user11819729

Reputation: 11

After deleting the project from Eclipse IDE(Project Explorer), remove it from work space folder as well. Workspace folder path - C:\Users\username\workspace (it can be different for your system).

Upvotes: 1

Jollin George

Reputation: 21

Go to create new project. Once there, select the project type. Mine was PHP project. The new PHP project screen will popup. There, click create a new project and give the project name which you used before. Then press finish.

Upvotes: 0

Ron AB

Reputation: 80

First you create a project in some other location with the same name of your project as before.

Now delete this project by right clicking on project > Delete. Do not check the dialog "Delete Project Contents on Disk". Now you move your newly created project through file manager to the original location(location where you are not able to import your project).

Then import the project from the newly moved location(location where you are not able to import your project).

Upvotes: 1

Yannick

Reputation: 683

I had the same problem with the IBM Integration Toolkit, which is based on Eclipse. The problem also occurs in Android Studio, which is also based on Eclipse. crazyscot seems to have the right answer at A project with that name already exists in the workspace eclipse and his solution worked for me.

You need to open up the Project Explorer view (it may already be open) and delete the project from within there.

Upvotes: 9

tuobay

Reputation: 1

go to the folder and delete the file .project. This worked for me.

Upvotes: -2

Max

Reputation: 21

Go to Window >> Preferences >> General >> startup and shutdown >> workspace theen select Recent work space then click Remove and close the program and open it again

screenshot

Upvotes: 2

Vijay Yadav

Reputation: 11

Simply remove the .classpath and .project files and try.

Upvotes: 0

Mawg

Reputation: 40140

With the same problem, I did a text search and found an XML file containing the name of the project.

I had copied the project from another project. Let's say that I copied project A to project B. Although the XML file in the new project (B) was named for project B, it had an entry which still referred to project A. When I edited it, the problem went away.

Upvotes: 0

Keshav Prashanth

Reputation: 341

This is what I did. Go to Window --> Show View --> Project Explorer Then right click on the project name that you want to delete and Click Delete.

In the dialogue box, check 'Delete Project Contents on disk'

It worked. I was able to create the project with same name again.

Upvotes: 16

ankit upadhyay

Reputation: 11

go to tab window>preferences>search workspace> then make sure in last / is not in your recent workspace. Example-:/var/www/html

your url should like above.

Upvotes: 0

Sharanabasu Angadi

Reputation: 4372

there will be a file .project xml file in the project and its content looks like

<projectDescription>
    <name>ProjectName</name>
.
.
.
</projectDescription>

here ProjectName is the name of project you can change it to whatever you want.

Upvotes: 1

user1442034

Reputation: 69

try moving the project and try importing

Upvotes: 0

thethakuri

Reputation: 511

You have to manually delete the project folder from your "workspace" directory (wherever you have defined it to be).

Upvotes: 1

PointedEars

Reputation: 14970

Removing a project from an Eclipse workspace does not delete the files by default. You have to check a checkbox for that. This is a Good Thing. As you have not checked the checkbox, you have to delete the files manually using e.g. a file manager.

Note that there are files starting with . in an Eclipse project directory, such as .project. They are considered hidden files on Unices.

Upvotes: -1

Eclipse project already exists

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