Eclipse: moving project to another folder

Question

Hi!

I generally have my working projects sitting on folders on my Desktop. When they are completed I just move them to a c:\dev\. The thing is I'm doing it in a rather archaic way.

1. move project files
2. delete project on eclipse
3. create new project on eclipse on the new location

How to you guys move projects around?

If I could alter the: File -> Properties -> Resource -> Location path it would be dead simple!

Example move:

c:\user\desktop\project_123
c:\dev\project_123

Thank you!

Answer 1

I rarely have any projects in Eclipse that aren't under source control, so all I would need to do is check the project out in the new location.

If you don't have source control, Eclipse works with CVS rather well out of the box, and it's pretty simple to setup CVS to run locally without a server: http://www.tortoisecvs.org/faq.html#cvsinit

Answer 2

Right click on the Eclipse project in the Package Explorer, select Refactor, then select Move... In the dialog that comes up, enter or navigate to the new location and click OK. This will also preserve your CVS or other SCM metadata, but will also bring all your modifications as well, and you won't lose any memberships in Working Sets, launch configurations, or other things that Eclipse associates with your project.