Eclipse “Invalid Project Description” when creating new project from existing source

Question

I am trying to create a new project from existing source code. I keep getting the following error: \"Invalid Project Description\", project path \"overlaps the location of a

Answer 1

This problem drives me crazy as well but I know what the cause of it is. The problem is that eclipse is not smart enough to create a folder with the same name of your project within your workspace folder if it is custom.

The way to solve this is to make sure all of your projects are in a folder with the name that matches your Project Name, otherwise it will dump all of your project files straight into the directory. The reason why you end up seeing that error is because it thinks you are putting a project inside another project (probably reads the project config file).

I noticed this is especially a problem when not using the default workspace path. The way I solve this problem is to just add the Project Name to the end of location. So let's say you are putting a project named "HelloWorld" into /Users/name/Documents/projects/android/, you would want to manually add "HelloWorld" to the end of it, like this: /Users/name/Documents/projects/android/HelloWorld. This would ensure that the project is put in it's own folder called "HelloWorld" and not inside some other project. Be sure that if there are any projects not within folders into a folder of the same name as the project to solve the errors.