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unable to access jaunty eclipse projects

Asked by N7DR

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I have a project that I was working on with eclipse under jaunty kubuntu.

Now that I've "upgraded" to karmic, I can't find any way to access the project. The "Open Project" menu option is greyed out; the import feature doesn't seem to do anything useful [and I'm not even sure that "import" is the right thing to do anyway].

No doubt there is a way to access the project, but it is horribly, horribly non-obvious what this way might be.

(Naïvely, I expected that the project would simply open in the new version of eclipse, à la MS Dev Studio; since karmic's eclipse doesn't do that, users need clear instructions as to how to get to their old projects.)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 10 14:16:21 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmci vmmon fglrx
Package: eclipse (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: eclipse
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

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This question was originally filed as bug #480291.

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N7DR (doc-evans) said : 		#1
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Rockwalrus (rockwalrus) said : 		#2

If you open the same workspace location as your previous eclipse install, the projects should just open. But if they do not, use "Import...->Existing Projects Into Workspace" to open up your old projects. You will need to find their location on the filesystem in order to import them.

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N7DR (doc-evans) said : 		#3

I have no doubt at all that, as you say, "the projects should just open". That's exactly what I expected.

I filed this as a bug for the simple reason that this is not what happens. I spent pretty much a whole day on this, trying everything I could think of, and the closest I ever got was to have an infinite recursion of directories created. I have now switched to Dev Studio on Windows for this project, because I have to have a working development environment and I could waste no more time trying to fix something that was broken by the switch from jaunty to karmic :-(

Sorry, but sometimes the need to be productive trumps one's desire to use an open source tool.

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