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| <H1 CLASS="Head">Linked resources</H1> |
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| Linked resources are files and folders that are stored in locations |
| in the file system outside of the project's location. These special resources must |
| have a project as their parent resource. Linked folders and files can be |
| used to add resources to your project that for some reason must be stored in a |
| certain place outside of your project. For example, a linked folder can be used |
| to store build output separately from your source files. |
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| You can even use linked resources to overlap other resources in the workspace, so |
| resources from one project can appear in another project. |
| If you do want to have overlapping resources in your workspace, do so with caution. |
| Keep in mind that this means changing a resource in one place will cause simultaneous |
| changes in the duplicate resource. Deleting one duplicate resource will delete both! |
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| Special rules apply when manipulating linked resources. Since they must be located |
| directly below a project, you cannot copy or move linked resources into other folders. |
| Deleting a linked resource will <em>not</em> cause the corresponding resource |
| in the file system to be deleted. However, deleting child resources of linked folders |
| <em>will</em> cause them to be removed from the file system. |
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| Some plug-ins built on top of the Eclipse platform are not compatible with linked resources. |
| If this is the case, you can completely disable the linked resource feature to prevent them |
| from being created in your workspace. Linked resources can be disabled from the |
| <b>Window > Preferences > Workbench > Linked Resources</b> preference page. |
| Certain types of projects or team repository providers may also disallow linked resources |
| from being created in some projects. |
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| <a href="../tasks/tasks-45.htm">Creating linked resources</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-67.htm">Deleting resources</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-49.htm">Viewing resource properties</a><br> |
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| <a href="../reference/ref-14b.htm">Linked resources</a> |
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