How to delete a 'dead' remote project in Eclipse

Question

I have a remote project in Eclipse. It was created through RSE's 'Create Remote Project' function. Now I changed hosting service and there's no option to connect to former host. When I try to delete this remote project Eclipse asks me for former host's login and password which if entered are not recognized anyway.

How can I delete the project?

Note: My workspace folder contains 'RemoteSystemsTempFiles' folder and there are no files concerning this project there.

Answer 1

You might check into the "workspace/.metadata/.plugins" directory to find the RSE plugin's data storage area. It will probably have an xml file or something with the reference to your project. Back it up and delete the reference. Hopefully this will remove it from your view.

Sorry I cannot be more specific, this is just a suggestion that I am not able to try explicitly.

Good luck, and like I said, back up the files you change... just in case.

Answer 2

Finally found it. I:

• deleted relevant folder in workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/
• relaunched Eclipse
• the project was still there but Eclipse let me 'legally' delete it with right-click