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Bug 13474

Summary: unable to create a project
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Alvin Thompson <alvin>
Component: ResourcesAssignee: DJ Houghton <dj.houghton>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P1    
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Alvin Thompson CLA 2002-04-10 19:25:24 EDT
hapenning since at least 4/4 daily build (GTK) on mandrake 8.2. Stable build
(3/21) works ok.

1. download and unzip daily build
2. start IDE
3. click menu item File|New|Project
4. pick either Java==>Java Project or Simple==>Project
5. enter project name, then clich FINISH
6! error dialog 'File /MyProject/.project' is read-only.'
Comment 1 DJ Houghton CLA 2002-04-10 19:33:00 EDT

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12979 ***