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One thing that at times can be confusing when using EclipseSW is that, by default, projects don't automatically refresh. Therefore, if you did something like added a file to a project by copy/pasting it into a project via the file system, this change would not automatically show up (although it would show up if you copy/pasted it into the project via the Eclipse Navigator view). If you copy/pasted to the project via the file system, in Eclipse you would need to right-click the project and go to 'Refresh' in order to get the new file to show up in the Eclipse views of the project.

I find it very useful to turn on the "Refresh automatically" option so that Eclipse will automatically perform project refreshes. This option can be found at Window → Preferences → General → Workspace, where you can check "Refresh automatically" to have your projects refresh automatically. This option is shown below:

It can be very helpful to have this 'workspace refresh' option turned on, since it can give you a better idea of the current state of the files that exist in your projects.