OK, if the above does not work , try the following. It worked for me.
The moral of the story . Periodically save metadata and reviewers for your project. They may be helpful.
Why the problem arose. . I added project Y to Project X and then deleted it. Eclipse did not correctly and completely remove Y and started complaining as above.
Versions and configuration : Eclipse Neon. Heritage. No maven etc.
What worked : 0) Close eclipse.
1) Made a copy of the entire X directory. To be safe.
2) deleted the above two. directories.
3) Copy the old saved versions of these directories to replace deleted versions.
4) Restart Eclipse. He made several routine complaints. But I did the following:
4.1) Clear 4.2) Update 4.3) Build all
5) It worked. I went out and restarted Eclipse many times to make sure that the problem does not appear again. So far so good.
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