Eclipse does not show projects in the workspace

Question

I opened the Eclipse workspace, which I transferred from another computer, but it does not show any projects in the package explorer (there should be a lot of them). Project folders are still in the workspace folder.

The new machine on which I transferred the workspace launches Windows 7, which has read-only write problems ( more info here ). These are all folders created in this OS that are read-only and that the read-only attribute cannot be deleted in any way.

Eclipse initially refused to open the workspace at all, saying that the workspace's .metadata folder is read-only. After you enable the user control to the lowest level, it opens the workspace, but it acts as if it does not contain any projects. I think this is because Eclipse refuses to work with read-only folders, and project folders are also read-only.

Has anyone had the same problem? How did you solve it? Any suggestions are welcome.

Answer 1

It is not enough to move your projects to the workspace path folder, you also need to import them. And because they are in the folder of your path, you cannot import them again, because it will say that you still have them in your workspace. Move them to another folder (for example, on the desktop), make sure your workspace folder is empty, and then try to import them from your temporary folder on the desktop.