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. :)