Some projects cannot be imported because their project description file is corrupted

Question

Was trying to import my SAP Hybris projects into Eclipse Workspace via Import->General->Existing Projects Into Workspace. But as soon as I give the path of my custom folder to import my Eclipse gives the error Some projects cannot be imported because their project description file is corrupted. And the same files are working perfectly fine for my other teammates.

ErrorOfScreenshotWhileImporting

Tried creating a new workspace and importing projects again, but nothing helped.

Also, here is the snippet of the error I can see in the workspace .metadata/log directory.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.resources 4 567 2022-06-30 21:08:52.444
!MESSAGE Failure occurred reading .project file.
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.core.resources 4 567 2022-06-30 21:08:52.445
!MESSAGE The element type "buildSpec" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</buildSpec>".
!STACK 0
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 18; columnNumber: 3; The element type "buildSpec" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</buildSpec>".
    at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:204)
    at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:178)
    at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:400)
    at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:327)
    at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(XMLScanner.java:1465)
    at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1695)
    at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2899)
    at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:605)
    at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:112)
    at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:542)
    at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:889)
    at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:825)
    at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:141)
    at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1224)
    at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:637)
    at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:326)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.ProjectDescriptionReader.read(ProjectDescriptionReader.java:930)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.ProjectDescriptionReader.read(ProjectDescriptionReader.java:958)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.loadProjectDescription(Workspace.java:1991)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.wizards.datatransfer.WizardProjectsImportPage$ProjectRecord.setProjectName(WizardProjectsImportPage.java:236)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.wizards.datatransfer.WizardProjectsImportPage$ProjectRecord.<init>(WizardProjectsImportPage.java:178)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.wizards.datatransfer.WizardProjectsImportPage.lambda$7(WizardProjectsImportPage.java:979)
    at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:122)

Can someone help?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Here .project file was missing the ending tag:

</buildSpec>

Adding the tag to the .project file of the corrupted project resolved my issue.