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Asked: 2026-05-14T21:34:31+00:00

I’m completely mystified. I do not understand why Eclipse does not show me my

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I’m completely mystified.

I do not understand why Eclipse does not show me my list of projects!

And all the answers I’ve seen to similar questions do not mention any ‘go here and do that’ type of answers.

I tried ‘Import/General/Existing Projects into Workspace/browse-to…’ but that told me the project was already in the workspace. But I KNEW THAT!

The project menu does not have an ‘open project’ option!!!!

There is no ‘open workspace’ option.

How do people open Eclipse and ‘resume working’???

What is the single, dependable, repeatable option for opening the ‘project tree’ to show my project?

[or tell me my expectations that Java people are smarter are way off base!]

Wait!!! I opened Eclipse again and there is an ‘open project’ link under the Project menu. But in all the times I’ve opened Eclipse, it is always disabled.

So when you open eclipse, it asks you for a workspace location which is always the location where my project is. But when it opens itself up, the project is nowhere to be seen.

So another (better?) question is what does Eclipse think I want to do or should be doing just after I open it up?

Thanks,

Kimball

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  1. Editorial Team

    This sounds like you are trying to see pre-existing (directories you created outside of Eclipse) “projects” as part of your workbench. But these pre-existing directories are not Eclipse projects. Eclipse projects add some files to the project directory, which contain metadata Eclipse needs.

    Two things:
    1. To import pre-existing projects (Eclipse or non-Eclipse), don’t copy the directories to your workspace directory, but somewhere else. Then in Eclipse, right-click, Import…, and import the files. The error message is trying to tell you to import from outside your workspace 🙂

    1. With new projects, create them in your workspace as the correct type of Eclipse project and you shouldn’t have any problems. So as an alternative to 1, you could follow these much more tedious steps: create new Java project, create packages under the src folder and copy your code manually into the right packages, set up build path as needed and let it build.
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