When you delete a project, select "Delete project contents on disk", otherwise when you recreate the project Eclipse will reuse the project settings. However, this also causes the src folder to be deleted, and in Windows the files do not go to the recycle bin. Make sure you have a copy of the src files.
I did do that, it seems that when deleting the project it does not delete a '.plist' file which contains info on the src folder. To be sure I deleted that, completely removed Eclipse and started again. The project now loads but I'm getting an error
Description Resource Path Location Type
The serializable class PluginPanel does not declare a static final
serialVersionUID field of type long
PluginPanel.java /SampleTool/src line 7 Java Problem
I think the error is because the zip file contains the SampleTool folder. Unlike skin projects, you should zip the contents of the folder, but not the folder itself.
Yep, got myself tied in knots, it compresses properly when you do it right
