How to delete non-exist project from Eclipse

Question

I have a non-exist project which I am unable to remove from Eclipse. I am just checking if there is any other way to remove it.

Process of deleting project I am using:

Selecting project -> right click -> select delete -> follow the wizards

Result: a fatal error occured while performing the refactoring found-problem client-target does not exist anymore

Answer 1

Running Eclipse with the -clean command line parameter works also.

Answer 2

I found all the answers here to be a little too elaborate and/or risky. So I closed eclipse (actually I had to force delete its sad, broken husk from Task Manager) then started it again.

Then I was able to right-click delete the packages from the package explorer.

Sounds like the solutions here are red/black on the roulette wheel. Maybe one of them will work for somebody? I miss .NET!

Answer 3

none of the above worked for me but this solution worked (was really a ghost project)

1. Shut down Eclipse
2. Open <workspace>/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/workingsets.xml
3. Find the faulty tag and remove it
4. Start Eclipse

Answer 4

For me neither solution worked. I'd to go to "Select working set" then select "Windows working sets". The project then appeared without working set and I was finally able to delete them.

Answer 5

VinyJones answer did not work for me, since there was no corresponding metadata for the non-existant project. The solution for me was to drag the non-existing project to an other working set. After dragging it disappeared.

Answer 6

You may try this :

• Close your workspace :
• Delete the dir client-target from <workspaceDir>\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects
• Open your workspace

And should be good