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Bug 363346

Summary:	Deleted svn working-dir project cannot be reimported
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Blessed Geek <blessedgeek>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	JDT-Core-Inbox <jdt-core-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	stephan.herrmann
Version:	3.8
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Blessed Geek

2011-11-09 11:14:11 EST

Build Identifier: M20110909-1335

I have ten workingsets, each of which has about 10 - 20 projects.

Deleting an svn working-dir project permanently does not actually delete the project permanently because residual project entrails are still found in .metadata.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use tortoise svn to check projects out into working dir.
2. Start Eclipse on a virgin workspace and turn of "build automatically".
3. Import those hundreds of projects from the svn working dir without copying
them into workspace.
4. Choose one project and delete it, choose to delete its contents from the disk.
5. Look into .metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects folder.
6. The "deleted" project is still there.
7. Use "Import existing projects" to try to import the project that was just deleted.
8. The project's listing on import wizard is greyed out, because the "deleted project exists in the workspace."

9. Delete the project entrails from metadata to allow the project to be re-imported.

Comment 1 Stephan Herrmann

2011-11-09 12:57:37 EST

After deleting is there any content inside the given
.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects\FOO folder?

If so, what do you see there?

Are you using an SVN plug-in inside Eclipse? Which one?
Could this be related to bug 248284?

Comment 2 Blessed Geek

2011-12-08 10:36:16 EST

(In reply to comment #1)
> After deleting is there any content inside the given
> .metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects\FOO folder?
> 

There is a list of projects inside that folder.
Which means that delete project and contents permanently failed to delete the projects buffered inside .metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects

Deleting those projects manually, will allow me to recreate projects of the same names.

Comment 3 Eclipse Genie

2020-04-22 05:54:15 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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