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How to reproduce: Do Open Project ... action on Explorer|Workplace node Select some package (sub folder) (for example examples.advanced) Press OK button Now you have project is only a link to file system's folder - so you created files are not marked as links
reassigning to me
actually it allows you to open any file as a project!
There was actually no way to recognize project. I have done this temporarilly so that a project has to implement ProjectCookie (impls of methods can be empty, since they are never called). Later on, we have to decide whether this will stay there or we change it to another cookie or enhance the ProjectCookie.
Closing, since there is no way how to open anything else than project. If you meant Import Project, so it checks if selected folder contains project now.