The project description file (.project) for my project is missing

Question

I am using Eclipse PDT 3.5 on Vista (32 bit). It works, though eclipse needs admin rights to execute. This annoys me, but I accept it.

But: every now and then (I am not sure, it may even be everytime I want to open a project), I get the error message "The project description file (.project) for my project is missing.".

It is NOT missing, it is in the main folder of the project. It has no special flags set (it is not hidden, nor system file, nor write-protected).

This is for ALL projects I have in my list. The only solution I have found so far is to delete the project from eclipse an re-add it. This is somewhat annoying.

What can I do?

EDIT: The workspaces are on a server volume. Can this be the problem? I used Eclipse 3.3 before, and there it was no problem with the server paths. And the server volume is mapped to a drive letter.

Answer 1

I had the same problem, and I haven't gotten that error since I close the project before I close myEclipse and don't tidy up the default location.

My project source and compiled files are outside the default workspace but there are stubb folders created by default by myEclipse in the default workspace. When I setup the project, there are two .project files - one in the default workspace that points to the working dir, and one .project in my chosen directory.

Answer 2

I am using Eclipse 3.5.1 on Ubuntu. After rebooting my machine my projects in PHP Explorer view were giving the warning that the .project file was missing. The problem was that the external directory where my projects are hosted was not mounted on reboot. So I did a mount -a from the command line and the Eclipse recognized the files.

Answer 3

If you only want to checkout and you delete the folder from the workspace you also need to delete the reference to it in the Java view. Then it should checkout as if it were checking out for the first time.