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I have a non-exist project which I am unable to remove from Eclipse. I am just checking if there is any other way to remove it.

Process of deleting project I am using:

Selecting project -> right click -> select delete -> follow the wizards

Result: a fatal error occured while performing the refactoring found-problem client-target does not exist anymoreenter image description here

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  • looks like your workspace is corrupted, try deleting and creating new owrkspace Commented Jun 24, 2014 at 20:42
  • Can you try deleting from the "Navigator" view (Window -> Show View -> Navigator)? Select project and hit Delete... Commented Jun 24, 2014 at 20:42
  • It looks like you are getting that error from something that is refactoring after you removed something else. The entire work area probably refreshes/refactors. And now there is a disconnect with one of your other projects. (That's what it looks like to me.) Commented Jun 24, 2014 at 20:42

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VinyJones answer did not work for me, since there was no corresponding metadata for the non-existant project. The solution for me was to drag the non-existing project to an other working set. After dragging it disappeared.

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Just to confirm that this solution also worked for me, without a restart. Should be tried before accepted answer (delete directory from .metadata).
This worked for me instead of the accepted answer, too. I had to drag the project onto the "Other Projects" working set folder, though. Another "real" working set did not work.
Works, and is dead simple to do.
Hmm, this did not work for me – the project just appeared in the new working set instead.
I'm still running Eclipse 2018-12 (on Linux). While the first time I moved the project it was still shown in the package explorer, I moved it again and it disappeared. Really odd behavior but it worked. Thanks!
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You may try this :

  • Close your workspace :
  • Delete the dir client-target from <workspaceDir>\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects
  • Open your workspace

And should be good

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Do not do this!
@JonathanDrapeau could you explain why not to do this?
@AJPerez It will remove all projects from your workspace, not just the non-existing ones.
@JonathanDrapeau i said to delete the directory "client-target" that refere to the project from the initial question not the ".projects" directory
Works for me, but after deleting the directory, I also had to click File -> Refresh to get it to work.
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none of the above worked for me but this solution worked (was really a ghost project)

  1. Shut down Eclipse
  2. Open <workspace>/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/workingsets.xml
  3. Find the faulty tag and remove it
  4. Start Eclipse
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For me neither solution worked. I'd to go to "Select working set" then select "Windows working sets". The project then appeared without working set and I was finally able to delete them.

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Running Eclipse with the -clean command line parameter works also.

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This doesn't work for me. I still get the same error message when trying to remove the project.
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I found all the answers here to be a little too elaborate and/or risky. So I closed eclipse (actually I had to force delete its sad, broken husk from Task Manager) then started it again.

Then I was able to right-click delete the packages from the package explorer.

Sounds like the solutions here are red/black on the roulette wheel. Maybe one of them will work for somebody? I miss .NET!

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