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Can one import an entire workspace into eclipse?


I have searched around the interwebs and have failed to find the answer to this question so I thought I would ask the wise people here.

I reformatted my computer recently and I backed up all my data including my Eclipse workspace but I failed to export my projects using Eclipse itself. I replaced my workspace file back into Eclipse but it does not show any of my projects as run-able Eclipse projects. Is there a provision to import a whole workspace into Eclipse? Is there information in other files that Eclipse requires or will I just need to manual rebuild the project? Thanks for your help and advice all.


Solution

  • You need to browse earlier workspace. Projects inside workspace automatically appears in project panel. However if they don't, goto File-> import menu and select "import existing" and browse to project folder in workspace. It should work.