Well, I hosed up my Android development PC, but didn’t care all that much since I really needed a newer, much faster PC for this work. And here I am now with a high-end Windows 7 64-bit box.
Eclipse and all the Android components are up and running, but the one thing I’m having trouble with is how to get my previous project into the new workspace. I copied over my entire old workspace directory from the old disk and made that my Eclipse workspace, but it doesn’t automatically see the projects that are there. I tried creating a new Android project “from existing source”, but it complained about having “overlapping projects” or some such.
Is there a way to have it recognize the existing project files, or should I move them somewhere else, create the project from scratch, and then copy the old files back into the project tree? Or any other solutions?
There was one other complication. On my “old” PC I had been using Eclipse Helios, which apparently has some minor compatibility issues with ADT, so on my new PC I went with Galileo instead, and there might be some differences in existing files in the project directory.
In any case, what I did was to move my old project directory to a temp location, create a new project in Eclipse with the same name and basic settings, close Eclipse, copy my whole directory tree back into the new project directories, and then restart Eclipse. Eclipse bitched a bit about something, then went ahead and rebuilt everything.
I’m back in business! Thanks for all the responses.
BTW, the entire install process took a long time since I wasn’t sure whether to install 64-bit Java or 32-bit (32-bit was required), etc. But it’s nice to be running on a clean, fast PC instead of one that’s been accumulating general crud for several years.