If you aren't working on a project, but would like to keep it in the IDE, you can close the project. The benefits of closing
a project are that it won't be scanned by the indexer or by SVN tooling and so on, and that closing unused projects can make
the IDE more responsive.
To close a project in the IDE:
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Select the Project Explorer view.
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Right-click your project, and then select Close Project.