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Save File Outside a Project? [message #784537]

Fri, 27 January 2012 17:12

Lawrence Coffin

Messages: 5
Registered: January 2012

Junior Member

How do I save a file *outside* a project? After creating a new Untitled Text File, I just want to save it to my hard drive somewhere. Save As asks me to select a project or 'enter a folder'. If I copy/paste the path to a folder somewhere, it says it isn't a project. Yeah, no duh. Just save my text file please... Searching on Google didn't turn up anything helpful. Searching on here didn't either.

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Re: Save File Outside a Project? [message #788484 is a reply to message #784537]

Wed, 01 February 2012 21:47

Eric Rizzo

Messages: 3070
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

On 1/27/12 12:12 PM, Lawrence Coffin wrote:
> How do I save a file *outside* a project? After creating a new Untitled
> Text File, I just want to save it to my hard drive somewhere. Save As
> asks me to select a project or 'enter a folder'. If I copy/paste the
> path to a folder somewhere, it says it isn't a project. Yeah, no duh.
> Just save my text file please... Searching on Google didn't turn up
> anything helpful. Searching on here didn't either.

No can do. Eclipse is project-centric; it will allow you to open a file
that's not part of a project but not write to files outside a project.
You can, however, create a project that is rooted anywhere in your
filesystem and then use Eclipse to create/write files there.

Eric

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