How to prevent creation of .project files in Eclipse navigator?

Question

In our Eclipse plugin are we managing some resources using navigator. For every folder in the navigator Eclipse is creating an .project file which leads to some problem in the code under resource management.

One way is to filter .project file pragmatically. But I wonder if there is a configuration or setting in Eclipse to prevent creation of .project files for the maps under navigator?

Answer 1

.project files created by Eclipse IDE is essential cannot be prevented from generation.

For Further information please refer to documentation at Eclipse Documentation.

EDIT:

The workaround would be to create a project in your workspace and then create a linked folder to the resources you want to scan that are somewhere else on the file system.