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Bug 194648

Summary: [Import/Export] Give more useful information when importing projects whose names match workspace projects
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Robert Konigsberg <konigsberg>
Component: IDEAssignee: Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Robert Konigsberg CLA 2007-06-27 13:37:21 EDT 
When using the "Import Existing Projects into Workspace" dialog box, after entering a directory where projects exist, the list of projects does not show any projects whose names already match projects in the workspace. I can understand that you don't want to projects with the same name; is it possible, however, to at least display the found entry as unimportable? Making that dialog a little easier to understand would be helpful.

One possible solution:

Add to the Projects dialog those projects that are found but can't be imported, and when selecting one of those, give information why it's not importable in a status label.
Comment 1 Kevin McGuire CLA 2007-06-27 14:38:55 EDT 
Its a good point, just removing the entries isn't enough, we should explain why.
Comment 2 Tod Creasey CLA 2007-06-27 15:59:15 EDT 
See Bug 163601 for a solution that we are looking at

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 163601 ***