title: How can I change a project's location pointer in Eclipse?
body: <p>A project has moved to a different location, so Eclipse won't open the project. You'll immediately think about simply changing the pointer to the location, but in Eclipse they try to make this impossible for some reason.</p>
  
  <p>You cannot change the project location in the <code>Project Explorer</code> properties.</p>
  
  <p>You can go to <code>[workspace]/eclipse/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/ProjectName</code> and try to edit <code>.location</code> which is the pointer to the project, but this file is purposely stored in binary.</p>
  
  <p>How do I change this <code>.location</code>, is there a tool for that? Any other way to <strong>simply</strong> point my old project entry to it's new location?</p>