Opening an Eclipse project already in my workspace

Question

If I have an Eclipse project already in my workspace (say downloaded from version control), how can I open it in Eclipse?

Answer 1

If you are using Eclipse for Mac, you have to create a new project with the same name as the folder that contains the project, which is already in the workspace. Do nothing else (no imports), just finish the wizard, and you will find all the subfolders and files in the new project created.

It's very misleading though, I had the same problem and it got me half an hour to solve it.