How to re-open closed Android project?

Question

I am using Eclipse to develop Android projects. I tried to reopen a closed project but got the following message...

The project description file (.project) for is missing. This file contains important information about the project. The project will not function properly until this file is restored.

I thought I could just create the project from my source folders (by using Windows Explorer) but the projects are completely gone (and I hadn't backed up to an external drive)

Any suggestions how to get these projects back?

Answer 1

closing a project does not delete the .project file. something else happened to delete that.

To "recover" from this situation I would do the following:

1. Create a new android project.
2. Close eclipse
3. Copy the source from the former project into the new project (outside of eclipse).
4. Start eclipse.
5. Refresh the new android project.