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Bug 366380

Summary:	[CommonNavigator] Replacing an existing resource with a linked resource doesn't update the Project Explorer UI
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Serge Beauchamp <serge>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	pwebster, remy.suen
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Serge Beauchamp

2011-12-12 06:49:35 EST

Note:  In order to reproduce this bug, the patch in bug 366339 needs to be applied

Steps  to reproduce:

1) Create a Project "p1"
2) Create a new file with drag and dropping foo.txt onto project "p1" in the Project Explorer.  Choose to create a regular file ("Copy Files" option)
3) Create a new linked file with drag and dropping foo.txt onto project "p1" in the Project Explorer.  Choose to create a linked file ("Link to files" option)

Note that even though the file type has been changed (it is now a linked resource), the link resource overlay doesn't appear until we manually refresh it by pressing F5.

If steps 2 and 3 are inverted, then the linked resource overlay will stay, even though the file isn't a linked resource anymore.

Comment 1 Lars Vogel

2019-11-14 03:32:01 EST

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.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. 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.

If the bug is still relevant, please remove the "stalebug" whiteboard tag.