You must manually delete the project from App Explorer

Question

I deleted the .project file from the file system permanently and must delete the subsequent project from Aptana Application Explorer so that I can recreate it with the same name. The option "Delete project" does not exist, so it just sits there, although the local directory is empty. I need it to disappear, what is the brute force method to get this thing from there?

Answer 1

You will need to open / switch to the Project Explorer view (or the Navigator view), find the project (maybe closed) and delete it from there.

To open Project Explorer, you can click "Window → Show View" and select it.

Greetings

Answer 2

For those who are still trying to find the answer to this question, the following procedure worked for me:

Make sure the Project Explorer tab is visible. If not, select Window → Show View → Other ..., and then expand the General group and click Project Explorer. Click OK.

On the Project Explorer tab, expand the Local File System group and right-click any empty area with this window and select Refresh.

When prompted to delete the orphaned project, select OK.

Answer 3

You can try creating a dummy project folder and a .project file. Here is one for my current Rails project, but there should be no reason why deleting these lines would render it inoperative, right? (Hope?)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <projectDescription> <name>ici</name> <comment></comment> <projects> </projects> <buildSpec> <buildCommand> <name>com.aptana.ide.core.unifiedBuilder</name> <arguments> </arguments> </buildCommand> </buildSpec> <natures> <nature>org.radrails.rails.core.railsnature</nature> <nature>com.aptana.ruby.core.rubynature</nature> </natures> </projectDescription> 

When you have .project in the right folder, you can click the gear icon and click “Delete Project”.

Answer 4

Imagine that you have projects A, B, C. You have deleted project B, but it still appears in the Application Explorer:

• Access this workspace directory: Aptana Studio 3 Workspace / .metadata / .plugins / org.eclipse.core.resources / .projects
• Copy folder A (some existing folder is working fine) and rename it to B (with the name of the project you want to delete).
• Open Aptana Studio and get access to B.
• Clic to open a project if a button appears. If not, right-click and select Update. It will display the contents of the project or an empty folder
• In the toolbar of the Explorer application, click "Delete project." Be careful! do not check "delete project contents" or you delete the project ...

Answer 5

If you delete the project folder from your local system, make sure that the launch configuration for this project is also deleted so that it does not refer to a non-existing project.

This worked for me:

• Find the launch configuration by clicking Run-> Run Configurations.
• Find the project by typing its name in the search box on the left.
• Click on the desired long configuration to delete.
• After you have selected the launch configuration for deletion, click the red cross just above the search field to delete.
• Close the dialog box.
• Restart Aptana.