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Bug 201916

Summary: User can create a project called ".metaarea"?
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Randy Hudson <hudsonr>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: remy.suen
Version: 3.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Randy Hudson CLA 2007-08-31 11:19:19 EDT 
I didn't click the finish button, but the new project wizard allows me to choose ".metaarea" as a filename. I tried it after seeing a file called "favorites.xml" in my workspace root.  Seems like there's no "namespace partitioning" (as far as the wizard indicated) in the workspace root between valid user project names and meta-files/folders like this bookmarks file or eclipse's ".metaarea" folder.
Comment 1 Remy Suen CLA 2007-08-31 16:55:09 EDT 
On Eclipse 3.4M1, the project wizard does prevent me from creating a _.metadata_ folder but on 3.3.0, as you have specified for this bug, it does not appear to be supported. Please note, though, that the folder that Eclipse generally stores things in is the workspace's .metadata folder and not the .metaarea folder.

You are correct, however, that it doesn't seem to check against resources that are within the workspace, such as your favorites.xml file. There is no error in neither 3.3.0 or 3.4M1 for me.
Comment 2 Remy Suen CLA 2007-08-31 18:43:38 EDT 
Looking through the backlog of bugs, I think this is essentially a duplicate of bug 186752.
Comment 3 Boris Bokowski CLA 2007-09-04 11:33:53 EDT 
Please reopen if this is not a dupe. Thanks for your help, Remy!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 186752 ***