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Bug 2386

Summary: Moving project content dialog confusing (1GEVF58)
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: DJ Houghton <dj.houghton>
Component: UIAssignee: Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P1 Keywords: usability
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description DJ Houghton CLA 2001-10-10 22:35:23 EDT
A few different things which are confusing:....

	- create project AAA
	- right-click to bring up the context menu and select Move
	- "Copy of AAA" is the recommended new name
	- make the name "AAA"
	- NOTE it says that a project already exists
	- de-select the "Use default location" checkbox
	- NOTE that the error message goes away even though you haven't
	  changed the name of the project.

	- NOTE that the text box is empty but the OK button is active
	- click OK
	- you get a message saying that the project couldn't be moved (this is ok)

	- right-click on the project and select Move
	- make the name "AAA"
	- NOTE it says that the project already exists
	- NOTE the default location button is not checked
	- NOTE the location in the text box is the default location

	- click on the "Use default location" check box
	- NOTE the error message goes away

	- hit OK
	- you get an error message because you tried to move to the
	  same place that you were

	Moral of this long story is that you seem to get into a weird state
	if you try to move a project's contents to a location which is an
	empty string.

NOTES:
Comment 1 DJ Houghton CLA 2001-10-29 18:24:40 EST
PRODUCT VERSION:
	0.119 JRE on Win98

Comment 2 Tod Creasey CLA 2002-02-01 14:15:42 EST
You can no longer rename in a move in 2.0 - a move only changes the location
Comment 3 Tod Creasey CLA 2005-05-10 14:55:58 EDT
Marking closed