I’m Back

So it's been a long time since I've posted.  Between work, the holidays, and buying my first house I've been super busy lately.  Starting with this post, I'm going to try to get back into my old rhythm again.  I've got some new components and experiments in the works, but for now I'll leave you with a little Flex Builder/Eclipse trick.

The problem: You or a team member exported a Flex project archive, and now you want to import it back into your workspace but you are receiving the following message -  A project with the same name already exists in your workspace. Rename or delete the existing project. It's nice of Eclipse not to allow you to overwrite an existing project, but an option to import it with a different project name would be nice.

The solution: Unzip your Flex project archive.  Open up the file called .project in a text editor (e.g. notepad).  Under <projectDescription> there should be an element called <name>.  Change this value to something unique within your workspace (appending a "2" usually does the trick).  Open Flex Builder and import the modified project.

Anyone know of a more automated solution?

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