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[johndb]

Yesterday I downloaded eclipse IDE; followed along to some java tutorials. Everything went smoothly, I created a new project and classes within that. I saved the whole folder/project onto a usb stick. The next day I go to another computer with eclipse on it I set the workspace to the same path as yesterday; that is on my usb stick. I open eclipse, hoping to find a open project option? none found; but I find a open file option, so I open up two class files that I was working on before within that project. They worked perfectly yesterday but today I try to run them and it asks me "Run As" Ant build or Ant Build....I am not experienced in working with "Ant Builds", nevertheless I have tried both Ant Build options and I get the message "Build Failed, unable to find an file to run".

I have previously used jcreator lite to do java. But everytime I try to use netbeans or eclipse, I always find it difficult to simply reopen a file I was working on; and continue where I left without confusion or reference to advanced features of the ide. There is probably a simple solution to this but it has eluded me. I would prefer not to go about the route of creating a new project with a whole new directory just inorder to run a previous file/project.

[tate]

There is usually an option to import a project. That is how I do it when I move my code from home to school to work. It might also just be called Import but I know it is in the same area as the open file option just further down the list.

[johndb]

All the options in import\general appear to involve importing into an existing project or creating a new project in the process. There is a Java EE option and some other options which all seem foreign to me as I am not that advanced in java. I want to import a simple java project previously made and use the files in that.