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Bug 347543

Summary: Misleading warning message
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Jonathan Camilleri <camilleri.jon>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: daniel_megert, prakash
Version: 4.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Jonathan Camilleri CLA 2011-05-28 08:14:56 EDT 
Build Identifier:  M20110210-1200

Although I regularly select the checkbox 'Delete project contents on disk (cannot be undone' - see eclipse-scr-prompt.GIF - a warning is regularly displayed indicating that projects which have the same name as projects which have already been deleted cannot be created -  see eclipse-scr_error.GIF, when creating a New Java Project using the wizard.

Eclipse presumably keeps track internally, however, no evident configuration setting is available for clearing this history, for example, when the user is deleting temporary files for freeing up some disk space.



Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jonathan Camilleri CLA 2011-05-28 08:15:48 EDT 
Created attachment 196827 [details]
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Comment 2 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2011-05-29 16:06:16 EDT 
Jonathan,
    I'm sorry I didn't understand the bug report clearly. Are you asking for storing the value of the checkbox and automatically check/uncheck it next time when the dialog appears?
Comment 3 Jonathan Camilleri CLA 2011-05-30 07:31:53 EDT 
I am asking for the warning message to be removed, and, the relevant temporary files, cache, once I have selected the option to delete the project permanently from the disk.
Comment 4 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2011-05-31 03:35:54 EDT 
(In reply to comment #3)
> I am asking for the warning message to be removed, and, the relevant temporary
> files, cache, once I have selected the option to delete the project permanently
> from the disk.

   AFAIK, There is no such temporary files/cache is being maintained by Eclipse on the deleted projects. Can you let us know the steps to reach eclipse-scr_error.GIF ? I guess this will happen only if you don't click the "Delete Project contents" checkbox, which leaves the project on the disks and removes it from the workspace.
Comment 5 Jonathan Camilleri CLA 2011-05-31 12:41:40 EDT 
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > I am asking for the warning message to be removed, and, the relevant temporary
> > files, cache, once I have selected the option to delete the project permanently
> > from the disk.
> 
>    AFAIK, There is no such temporary files/cache is being maintained by Eclipse
> on the deleted projects. Can you let us know the steps to reach
> eclipse-scr_error.GIF ? I guess this will happen only if you don't click the
> "Delete Project contents" checkbox, which leaves the project on the disks and
> removes it from the workspace.

1. Create a project
1.1. Select File > New > Java Project, or, select Alt + Shift + N and select Project from the context menu. See ecslipe-main screen.GIF.
1.2. Use the wizard to create a Java Project.

2. Delete the project created in step 1
2.1. Select the project from the Projects Window, and, delete the project, and confirm by selecting 'Delete project contents on disk (cannot be undone)' and selecting OK (see eclipse-scr.prompt.GIF)

It is noted that when I type the name of a project that already existed in the past, the prompt is displayed 'A project with this name already exists', as per screenshot eclipse-scr_error.GIF.
Comment 6 Dani Megert CLA 2011-06-01 02:13:05 EDT 
> It is noted that when I type the name of a project that already existed in the
> past, the prompt is displayed 'A project with this name already exists', as per
> screenshot eclipse-scr_error.GIF.

That does not happen for me if I checked the checkbox when deleting the project.
Comment 7 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2011-06-03 02:29:55 EDT 
As per Comment#4 and Comment#6 marking as works-for-me