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android eclipse driving me mad?

I've quite new to Android development and specially Eclipse.

I'm busy on a project called, say 'HelloEclipse'. I've had some major changes ahead, in which I had to some very big changes.

So I made a zip file of c:\workspace\HelloEclipse, placed that in a save place. Went on to work on my project. Few hours later, I wanted to go back to the saved situation. Closed Ecplise, rebooted my computer, because I wanted to make sure there were no locked files. Deleted the old c:\workspace\HelloEclipse folder, place the version out of the ZIP file back.

This resulted in a totally corrupted workspace status. Could not go foward, nor backward. I've ended up, creating a new project, and pasted in everything, took me hours. I think this is quite stupid Eclipse behavior. I've also tried ot, export/import with a archive from out of Eclipse, also not succesfull.

So the two questions;

  1. How am I suppose to save projects (without installing anything like subversion)?

  2. Why is saving the files not enough, and why does that make Eclipse barf?

Thanks in advance!

Dennis

Solution

  • In eclipse if you want to reimport an old project from a ZIP, don't just copy the project files to the workspace, instead, extract the files to a normal dir outside the workspace.

    Open Eclipse normally and select File>New Project>Android Project, just as you would to to create a new Android project, but then in the new android project window, you have a radio button giving you the choice to Create project from existing source, point it to the directory where you have extracted your old project and it should be re-imported to the WorkSpace alright.

    Or do File>Import>Import existing project into workspace.

    But in any case, don't put the files in the workspace manually to avoid conflicts, Eclipse will copy the files it needs itself upon importing.