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Recently I began to store the source code of my projects in a separate directory outside the default workspace to avoid conflicts with my co workers when using the same github repo, which is the reason for this question.

When creating a new Java project in version 4.6 Neon of Eclipse IDE, it shows you the location where the project folder will be created on your disk.

screenshot - dialogue that opens when creating a new project in Eclipse

It gives you the option to

"Use default location"

which in my case is the path to my workspace directory.

My question now is, how do I change that default location? Because I'd like to store all my code outside the workspace, I now need to enter my project folders path when creating a project.

I haven't found anything in the build in preferences nor in any of the forums dealing with Eclipse's features in general.

To clarify my question, I am not interested in changing the workplace location but rather in setting a default directory where all new projects should be automatically created.

Any help is appreciated, thank you in advance. :)

xoX Zeus Xox
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  • Possible duplicate of [How to change the eclipse default working directory?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5179328/how-to-change-the-eclipse-default-working-directory) – Ryan Jul 31 '17 at 14:38
  • *to avoid conflicts with my co workers when using the same github repo* - What? Are you working on the same machine or something? – Aleksandr M Jul 31 '17 at 20:27

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'default location' in the New Project wizard always means 'in the workspace', this can't be changed.

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