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eclipse stores all its workspace settings and files in the . metadata folder.
Where are they stored? Most preferences are stored under the workspace location, in a folder named . metadata. If you use project-specific settings (a good idea in general), those are stored under the project root directories in various folders and files, mostly beginning with .
The workspace is a directory on the disk where the Eclipse platform and all the installed plug-ins store preferences, configurations and temporary information. Subsequent Eclipse invocations will use this storage to restore the previous state. As the name suggests, it is your "space of work".
To view the project explorer, click on Window menu then, click on Show View and select Project Explorer. There is simpler way to open project explorer, when you are in the editor press alt + shift + w and select project explorer.
Windows:
<workspace>\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects\
Linux / osx:
<workspace>/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/
Your project can exist outside the workspace, but all Eclipse-specific metadata are stored in that org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects directory
As noted in the comments by tk421storm, and in Jeegar Patel's answer:
In order for manual changes to take effect, make sure to do
File -> Refreshafterwards.
In Mac OS X, it is under
<workspace>/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects
In Eclipse 3.3:
It's installed under your Eclipse workspace. Something like:
.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects\
within your workspace folder.
Under that folder is one folder per project. There's a file in there called .location, but it's binary.
So it looks like you can't do what you want, without interacting w/ Eclipse programmatically.
If you are using Perforce (imported the project as a Perforce project), then .cproject and .project will be located under the root of the PERFORCE project, not on the workspace folder.
Hope this helps :)
In Linux after deleting
<workspace>\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects\
Does not worked.
After that i have done File->Refresh
Then it cleared all old project listed from eclipse.
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