Eclipse Kepler not loading my workspace anymore

Question

I shutdown my machine yesterday and this morning on launching my eclipse it loads without any of my projects. I have tried doing a - clean to it to no avail. Also under the following path

workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects\

all my projects are present. How would I go about fixing this?

Answer 1

[Adapted from my comments above.]

Try re-importing the existing projects.

Choose the menu item File>Import... . In the resulting dialog Import , choose the item General>Existing Projects into Workspace .

You can select multiple projects in the dialog.

Answer 2

Try below and see if it works

Go to Window->Preferences->General->Startup ans Shutdown -> Workspaces

Make sure workspaces contains path of your workspace. If not then you have to add it manually.

Once you add workspace close your eclipse and then delete workspace/.metadata/.lock file if exist and restart it again

Note: Also make sure you have Prompt for workspace on startup checkbox is checked