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Asked: 2026-05-20T15:39:25+00:00

I’ve got a Flex 3 project. It works fine. But, I’d like to make

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I’ve got a Flex 3 project. It works fine. But, I’d like to make some major changes to it.

Is there a way to duplicate the project and work on the copy? It’s critical that I don’t screw-up the original. But, I’d like to make major changes to the copy.

I tried making a copy of the project and renaming it. But, when I try to import the copy into Flex Builder, it says: “A project with the same name already exists in your workspace. Rename or delete the existing project.” — even though I renamed the project file and the main mxml file.

Unfortunately, I don’t have a subversion program set-up, and I think that it will be a hassle to do so. Is there an easy way to work on a copy of a project?

My project uses a mySQL database. I don’t know if that makes any difference.

Thank you.

-Laxmidi

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  1. Editorial Team

    First thing first. You need to have a version management, if you are doing branching and merging. Creating local subversion repo is not that big a deal, but I use local git repository and it takes a minute to initialize a repository.(local)

    Now on to your question. You can create a copy of your project and the reason why your IDE is complaining is you have copied the project folders also ( project folders like .classpath and .project generated by your IDE). To make a copy, create a new project in your IDE and just copy the src folder ( and other versioned files ). You should be fine then.

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