Project description file(.project) is out of sync with the file system

Question

Every project which I import to eclipse 1st give me this error Then if I click ok, then library issues comes in which always it adds a broken library with a cross(X) mark. I tried many ways to fix this, This problem can be solved by fixing the error shown in the screenshot.

Anyone knows why its causing the error?

Help!!

Answer 1

Essentially what is happening, is that you change things externally which Eclispse cannot keep track of, hence I am guessing your .project file was moved.

A way to solve this is to refresh your project folder, Project > Refresh. For more information

Or try the refresh using native hooks or polling method which is described here

If worst comes to worst I would suggest recreating your project file and copying all the files over to the new project.

I hope this helps

Answer 2

first go ahead and refresh your project so eclipse would re-sync any external changes to the file system, then to avoid facing this again because you probably will! go to Window -> Preferences -> General -> Workspace Now check:

Refresh Automatically

or

Refresh using native hooks or pooling

one more thing try to give up on eclipse and download android studio, it is much much better.

Answer 3

In my case, refresh is not working, i try remove the project from eclipse workspace then import it again, finally it work.