All at once directories became invisible. What is wrong with my project?
How to get IntelliJ IDEA to display directories?
That didn`t help. I need to change something in settings, but I don`t know what exactly.
It will happen, when .idea folder is deleted or conflicted.
The best way is create new project, so .idea folder will create & all will work fine.
I have also faced same probel, when .idea folder is conflicted or deleted.
To easily create a module for your project and therefore show the folder structure -
Go to File menu -> New -> Project...
Select Static Web. Note: it does not matter if your project is "web" or not!
Hit next, then fill in the same Project Name: and Project location: as you have already.
IntelliJ will say "File Already Exists" - "Would you like to overwrite it?" - answer Yes.
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So I created an empty project, but when I create a new directory in the Project window, it does not show up. The directory is actually created, and if I navigate to the Project Files list I can see it there, but as far as I can tell there is no way to make even my src folder part of the actual project. This creates all kinds of problems when I have to move/refactor files, and I'm amazed that something so common and simple is so difficult.
You've created a folder, not a package. If ur using maven or grade, can I suggest u use them to generate an intelij project for you. The command escapes me but a quick Google should tell you
You can manually mark your directory as a sources root:
Every once in a while, I open an old project and I can't see any of the folders in the intelliJ project viewer. I can see all the files at the root.. but no folders. Yes I can delete the .iml file and .idea folder and re-create the project, but come on.. there's gotta be an easier way to fix this.
Is there?
If you look in project settings (ctrl-shift-alt-s), you should see a module structure. If you instead see "Nothing to see", do the following:
In Project Structure -> Modules, press the + button,
press enter (since, for some weird reason, it won't let me click on "New Module")
In the window that pops up, click on the "..." next to Content root, find your root folder, and select it
Press ok
ignore any warning that says the name is already in use (or to that effect)
the simplest solution worked from me, just delete the .idea folder
keep in mind this will delete all of idea's current project configuration, it'll create the folder with default settings when reload the project again... but all other configuration will be lost if not properly backed-up
It might be because the project didn't have any modules defined. Try adding existing source code by hitting File > New > Module from Existing Sources and select the parent directory of the project for source code
Go to pom.xml file -> right click -> maven -> generate source and update folders. You will see your files and folder structures in left hand side.
All the project-specific settings for a project opened through Intellij IDE are stored in the .idea folder.
The .idea folder (hidden on OS X) in the solution root contains
IntelliJ’s project-specific settings files. These include per-project
details such as VCS mapping and run and debug configurations, as well
as per-user details, such as currently open files, navigation history
and currently selected configuration.
So, if you are not able to see the project file structure in your Intellij IDE, just delete the .idea folder,
rm -rf .idea
and reload the project, then after reload you'll be easily able to get your project structure displayed.
Thank you very much. I just remove the .idea folder and works in my case.
rm -rf .idea
For me, the java folder was not showing up. I went into File->Project Structure. In the second column, I selected on _main. In the third column, I selected the tab "sources". In what I call the fourth column, where the "+Add Content Root" is shown, I verified, the java source/folder was present. In my case, there was an extra source folder, which was the current location. I removed this, applied and the java folder immediately showed up.
Right click on the Project name -> Open Module Setting -> Check the application context path set it up at your project location.
Check your idea.log -- it may have some details explaining why or what is happening (Help | Reveal log in Explorer). Possibly one of the config files got corrupted.
You can always backup and delete .idea subfolder (project settings) and re-create project from scratch. When it's wroking again (after basic configuration) you may copy some of the files from that folder back to recover some of your settings (if there were many).
This happened to me on a new computer when I opened up a Java project in the newly installed Intellij.
The problem was that I had not installed any JDK on the machine.
I had to install a JDK and then go into the settings at ctrl-shift-alt-s and add a JDK by specifying the folder where I installed it. It's possible that IntelliJ would have found it if I closed it and reopened it.
In my case the solution was to create a new project, specifying the project type and creating it within the same directory path as the project that does not load the project files correctly.
PhpStorm automatically detects that the directory exists and gives you the option to create project from existing sources.
This can be found under:
File --> New project...
For gradle users: "Reload All Gradle Projects" option should help.
I'm running Rubymine 5.4.x on Windows 7 (but that shouldn't really matter for this question) and I have managed to delete projects and seemingly rename them before, but I am stuck this time.
In the past, this is what I've done:
rename all instances of your old project name in all the files in the .idea folder in your project directory.
rename all instances of your old project name in all the files in the RubyMine config folder and subfolders (on windows, for RM 5.x - %USERPROFILE%\.RubyMine50\config)
rename all instances of your old project name in all the files in the RubyMine system folder and subfolders (on windows, for RM 5.x - %USERPROFILE%\.RubyMine50\config)
rename all FILES that contain your old project name to the new project name, a few examples - rename:
your actual project directory which would probably have the same name as the project to the new project name
the .idea/<your_project_name>.iml file
In Summary:
By deleting or modifying these files/folders I have managed to delete or rename the projects that appear in my "project list" in that startup screen/Create Project/Open Project Modal for RubyMine, and in the ReOpen Projects menu.
However, this time around I can't get the name of this particular project rename... that is it appears with the correct path in these lists, but the incorrect name.
Furthermore, the incorrect name appears in my Project ToolWindow once the IDE is launch, although directly to the right of it in parenthesis is the correct path.
Any thoughts? tia
To rename a project edit .idea/.name file manually.
There is a feature request to add Rename Project action to a File menu, please vote.
Updated answer done on RubyMine 6.3.3 when I wanted to rename the project directory:
Close RubyMine
Rename project directory to desired name
Delete the .idea folder
Reopen renamed project directory in RubyMine
I found this to be easier than combining the steps listed on the question and the accepted answer
OK... I just figured it out... IN ADDITION to everything above... you need to rename the .name file (it's just one line with the name of your project) in the .idea directory in the root directory of your project
In addition to modifying the .idea/.name file, there is also a .idea/<project name>.iml file. Open this, do a find/replace with <project name> and <new project name>, then rename this file as well.
Quit RubyMine, and reopen it. This will update everything. In your source control you'll notice a lot of other files which automatically got updated as well.
The .name does no longer exist in my version of RubyMine (2019.3)
The File|Rename project.. will automatically pick up the folder name change (if you changed it outside of RubyMine when it was closed)
Additionally, I had to rename the <project name>.mlt file in the .idea folder and change the references to it in idea/modules.xml (search and replace old project name to new project name)
<module fileurl="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/.idea/<PROJECT NAME>.iml" filepath="$PROJECT_DIR$/.idea/<PROJECT NAME>.iml" />
Is there an easy way in IDEA 12 to rename a project in the "Recent Projects" list?
Found the solution.
You can rename the Project under "File > Project Structure > Project > Project Name".
Simply edit the file that contains the name: .idea/.name.
If your project is file based, you cannot rename the project from within IDEA.
Convert your project to a directory based format, and then you will have the option to rename it under "File > Project Structure > Project > Project Name".
This was just done on 14 ultimate.
Change your project using refactor. (first change your project folder name).
Select Project Name.
Select Refactor->Rename
Input new Project.
Everything should be ok now.
To rename project in IDEA 13 CE
Close IDEA project
Find project files *.ipr, *.iml, *.iws
Rename all these files as you want to be named project e.g. New Project.ipr(iml,iws)
Open project file in IDEA
I've tried the answer of #Matthias, #Ernest and #fhucho, but did not work (with 12.1.6CE).
What made it work was:
change the name of the project folder
find and rename the .ipr file, as proposed by #Ernest
Note: I did not have any .iml nor .iws file
change the name in .idea/.name
replace all occurrences for the initial project name by the new one in all .xml files
find them using:
find . -name "*.xml" -exec grep -Hn $InitProjectName {} \;
Rename all old*.iml to new*.iml
Open this project in Sublime Text, use Ctrl+Shift+F to replace all "old" to "new"
Then reopen this project and build it!
I found the solution to change “Recent Projects” list!
browse 'setting.gradle' in your project
change rootProject.name='new_project_name'
However, this way only changes the project name.
Try the answer of #Matthias together!
I completed the renaming as below.
The attached image is structured in project folder.
Must make changes in the xml into a new project name.
close IDEA intellij (14.0.2)
change intellij project name (folder)
e.g) old_project_name -> new_project_name
change .idea in folder
We have only changed the
1) artifacts in folder -> xml
2) runConfigurations in folder -> xml
3) modules.xml
4) workspace.xml
5) [your_project_name].iml
(Depending on your project structure, your folder may not contain xml)
restart IDEA intellij
File -> Import Module...[your intellij project]
I hope this helps you :)
I have tried all above solutions but the solution that worked for me is, renaming the folder manually after closing the IDE. Once it is renamed, it is all good to show the new project name.
I wish to use IDEA to edit a directory full of files of no particular type. So, I create a new project of type Empty Project and point it at my directory.
The project view now shows the files in the directory itself. But, it doesn't show any subdirectories. This is very strange.
Even more strangely, I can still use New -> Directory to create a new directory. From the command line I can see that the directory has been created; but, from within IDEA, it's still not appearing.
What's going on here? And, more importantly, how can I actually get it to show me my subdirectories?
This is IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.1. I did find IntelliJ does not show project folders, which sounds similar. But, it is referring to a different version of IDEA and they're not using an Empty Project. So, I don't think it's relevant.
In IntelliJ, you have to create at least one module. As CrazyCoder said in the comments, adding a module sets the root folder of what to display in the Project pane.
Here are steps that I took to show empty folders.
In a terminal window
mkdir one
mkdir one/two
mkdir one/two/three
mkdir one/two/three/four
In Intellij 15.0.2, I created a new project, selected Empty Project and set the Project Location to the one folder.
After creating the project, IntelliJ prompts me with a Project Structure dialog with Modules selected in the navigation tree. I clicked the '+' button in the middle pane to add a module. I chose Static Web as the module type to prevent creation of an additional src folder. I set the Content root and the Module file location of the module to the same one folder.
I clicked Finish and then Ok. This gave me this structure