Bug 102285 [Import/Export] Project Import wizard unusably slow
R3.1 I wanted to create a new 3.2 workspace and import some projects from my 3.1 development workspace which contains around 120 plug-ins. I've set the root of the importer to point at those plug-ins. After letting the wizard scan my disk for over 10 minutes I gave up and did it manually. A possible source for the problem might be that the root directory (as expected) contains a .metadata directory with tons of data (in my case) and that this one is fully scanned.
bundles/org.eclipse.ui.ide/src/org/eclipse/ui/internal/wizards/datatransfer/WizardProjectsImportPage.java
*     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *     Red Hat, Inc - extensive changes to allow importing of Archive Files
 *     Philippe Ombredanne (pombredanne@nexb.com)
 *     		- Bug 101180 [Import/Export] Import Existing Project into Workspace default widget is back button , should be text field
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package org.eclipse.ui.internal.wizards.datatransfer;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.zip.ZipException;
import java.util.zip.ZipFile;
import org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject;
import org.eclipse.core.resources.IProjectDescription;
import org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource;
import org.eclipse.core.resources.IWorkspace;
import org.eclipse.core.resources.ResourcesPlugin;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.*;
import org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog;
import org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.ErrorDialog;
import org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.IDialogConstants;
import org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.MessageDialog;
import org.eclipse.jface.operation.IRunnableWithProgress;
import org.eclipse.jface.resource.ImageDescriptor;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.CheckboxTreeViewer;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ITreeContentProvider;