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reply from <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/dgolovin">Denis Golovin</a> in <i>JBoss Tools</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/534263#534263">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p>John Bailo wrote:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Denis Golovin wrote:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><em>It can be changed in project properties dialog. Select "Web Project Settings" Category and you'll see 'Context Root' field to define it.</em></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I changed this.  Now it launches with MYPROJECTNEW in the URL, but the server doesn't find any files.  It still doesn't recognize the project</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p></blockquote><p>That's probably because you still have old project name in hidden configuration files.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p><em>Change filter preferences to see hidden files which name started from .</em></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I'm not exactly sure where "Change Filter Preferences" is located?</p></blockquote><p>In Java Package Explorer View press triangle button in task bar, like it shown on screen-shot below and select Filters... item</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2423/filter-menu.png"><span> http://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2423/450-362/filter-menu.png </span></a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Then unselect ".* resources" item like it shown on screen-shot below</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2424/filter-unselect.png"><span> http://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2424/387-485/filter-unselect.png </span></a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="text-align: left;">Then do the search for old name in all files within new renamed project and replace all entries with new name.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p>John Bailo wrote:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><em>Delete hidden CVS meta data after you copied project and share project again. Another approach is exporting it before renaming to get just sources without CVS metadata.</em><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Do I need to leave the \CVS folder?   I deleted the whole thing and the project wouldn't load.  Do I delete only the files in the folder?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p></blockquote><p>No matter what it names now all CVS folders still contain old module name in CVN\Repository file and that's why your commits come to the old CVS module in repository. So you ether should delete all CVS folders in your local filesystem or disconnect your project from CVS with meta information deletion through Team/Disconnect... context menu on your project in any eclipse navigator view. Then you should share it again in CVS module with new name.</p></div>
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