Question

I have two computers, and want to share a java project in eclipse by saving and opening the project from my USB stick.

But I can’t seem to get it to work very easily.

What steps do I need to take to set this up properly?

Answer 1

These things should be discouraged. My advice is using an SCM (Source Control Management)
like Git and keep a repository on the external drive (if using Git, a bare repository on the USB stick and a local repository on each machine). At the beginning you’ll spend quite some time getting used to, but it will pay soon (you’ll have descriptive changelogs and disaster recovery facilities)

Eclipse has support for Git via Egit, and for SVN builtin.

When you share a project like this, you may encounter troubles related to classpath references to external JARs, which may be overcome by

1. using a lib/ folder (thus keeping the JARs under version control)
2. using an environment variable like $JAVA_LIB
3. using some dependency manager like Maven or Ivy (again, there are lots of stuff, but will pay even in the short term)

For existing project that you don’t want to put under version control, you can simply (again, there may be missing library errors) use the menu File > Import > General > Existing projects into workspace