Mounting file systems


To work with files in the IDE that you created outside of the IDE, you must mount them to the Filesystems in the Explorer.

Mounted directories must be mounted at the default package, and Java sources in them must be in packages corresponding to their position relative to the mount point. If a file system is mounted at the wrong point, the IDE will be unable to compile its sources, and other problems will arise.

For example, mounting a file system from the point C:\work would not give the IDE correct access to the package project1 stored as c:\work\myprojects\project1. In this case, this file system should be mounted at C:\work\myprojects, so that project1 is the top-level package.

To mount a new file system:
To mount a new JAR or ZIP archive:

You can also mount a file system at the same time open one of the files in it.

To mount a file system and open one of its files:
To remove mounted directories or JAR or ZIP files from the Explorer:

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