IntelliJ does not show project folders

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I have an issue with IntelliJ  It doesn t show any folders in my project view on the left   My setting is  View As  Project  How can I manage it so that the folders and packages are shown again  I don t have any clue because I didn t change any options   I m using IntelliJ 10 0 3   I am working on a Maven Lift Project

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Deleting  idea workspace xml worked for me  Close the project  delete  idea workspace xml  and open the project again  I was using version 2019 1

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I had to quit Intellij and remove the  idea folder  I stashed it first  just in case   I then re-opened the project and that worked for me  Don t forget to save your configuration  e g  debug   run configurations  before that  because they will also be deleted

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I had the problem after an upgrade from intellij 15  v143  to 2016 3  v163   I also had an intermittent error on startup about a  Load error  undefined path variables  with a cryptic variable name   After countless attempts at most solutions presented here  reimport the project  invalidate caches  amp  restart  checks of project structure and paths      the only thing that worked was to completely reinstall Intellij  removing the    idea     IntellijIdea   and selecting  No  at the question  would you like to migrate previous settings    This finally worked

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I have that little while earlier and solved it by following the steps provided below   a  Right-click on the  External Libraries  and select the  Load  Unload modules  button     b  If you see the modules are already loaded  perform the load unload again       After I have done that  I see the project again in the top of the External Libraries section  I use Linux machine  BTW

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Even after 5 years  and having some experience with idea  I still have this problem all the times  Here is the simplest solution    Close Idea Delete  idea Start Idea and open project instead of import project   And then  open conf file for your framework  like pom xml or build sbt or build gradle etc and it will automatically prompts to import project and when you click and when it finishes  your project is mostly setup correct

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I have deleted the  idea folder  Closed ItelliJ and restarted to open the same project   It asked to add the content root  That worked for me

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Intellij imports the project after resolving all the dependencies  In my case  it was unable to resolve dependencies for some of the modules and was stuck there  I had to copy my Maven settings xml from local repo to the default  m2 folder in order to point it to the correct local repo

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Project Structure    Modules    Select your module    Paths    Make sure  Inherit project compile output path  is selected

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OS Mac  amp  amp  IDE  IntelliJ  amp  amp  Project  Maven build   Navigate to File Project Structure Modules  In right-hand area  list of modules would be present  Delete the default one selected and close IntelliJ  Next Open again  IntelliJ will ask if you want to treat the project as Maven project  Accept that popup and you are good to go

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I had this issue as well   It is something do with  idea just delete it and restart IntelliJ

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As I had the same issue and none of the above worked for me  this is what I did  I know it is a grumpy solution but at least it finally worked  I am not sure why only this method worked  It should be some weird cache in my PC    I did close IntelliJ I did completely remove the  idea folder from my project I did move the folder demo-project to demo-project-temp I did create a new empty folder demo-project I did open this empty folder with intelliJ I did move all the content demo-project-temp  Don t forget to also move the hidden files Press right click  Synchronize  to your project You should see all the files and folders now  Now you can also safely remove the folder demo-project-temp  If you are on linux or MAC do it with rmdir demo-project-temp just to make sure that your folder is empty

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When importing your project module be sure to check these two boxes

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Select the module settings and do these changes  it will work   In File   Project Structure   Modules  click the     button   add new module as per your project specific like Java or RUBY or something  then apply and ok

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So after asking another question  someone helped me figure out that under File   Project Structure   Modules  there s supposed to be stuff there  If it s empty  says  Nothing to show    do the following    In File   Project Structure   Modules  click the     button   Press Enter  because weirdly it won t let me click on  New Module    In the window that pops up  click on the       next button which takes you to the Content root  Find your root folder and select it   Click the  ok  button Ignore any warning that says the name is already in use

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If you have a gradle module with the same name as your projects root folder  the gradle import will replace your toplevel module configuration and change your view completely   Make sure you have no gradle module with the same name as your root directory

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I have a nodeJs project and lost my folders after removing the   project name  iml file   This restored the folders while preserving my other project settings    Project Settings  gt  Modules   Add Content Root

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I just had the same problem with an SBT project in IntelliJ 2016 2 after removing a globally installed IntelliJ and re-installing in my own home folder  Linux   No files or folders were shown in Project View anymore   The Project Structure view wouldn t even open  and renaming the  idea folder to  idea bak and re-importing the project didn t make any difference   However  what fixed it for me was to reboot Linux  Afterwards it worked again  even with the original  idea folder  Seems this  fix  is not only restricted to the Windows world

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I encountered this problem when the  idea folder was accidentally added to SVN version control   When I took an update --- blooey    I subsequently removed the  idea folder from version control

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I am a new user of IntelliJ IDEA 2016 2  I opened an existing project when I first ran the program and had the same issue whereby it only showed files in the root directory in the 1  Project panel  but not the project folders  expandable tree-like structure    Initially  I tried going to Project Settings   Modules  where no modules were shown listed  I clicked      and tried to select my root folder  but it wouldn t select the folder    So I then solved it with these steps instead    Exit IntelliJ Delete the existing  idea folder  i e  rm -rf  idea  Restart IntelliJ Verified that the project root folder now appeared  in Project Settings   Modules  Toggle On the toolbar buttons  i e  1  Project Structure  to display on the left sidebar  clicked  View   Toolbar Buttons until tick appears  Click 1  Project Structure toolbar button until its sidebar is revealed Click the arrow icon on the left of your project s root directory name that appears to expand the tree folder structure   UPDATE 2nd Sept 2017  If you ve added a Module SDK and it added a  iml file within a subdirectory of the root of your project that causes it to load the module subdirectory  then it may be necessary for you to modify that  iml file by appending     as shown below      lt component name  NewModuleRootManager  inherit-compiler-output  true  gt       lt exclude-output   gt       lt content url  file    MODULE DIR      gt

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Adding this answer for completeness  I was using 15 0 6 and had this problem  I trued to import a module from Maven or Gradle an it went through the process  but the module did not appear  I tried deleting the  idea file and restarting  Uninstalling and installing the latest version  community 2016 2  addressed the problem

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You don t have to quit Intellij completely to make this work  Simply close the project that you have open   You can open any another project to avoid closing it completely   Go to the directory where you have your project installed and delete the   idea  folder  Reopen the Project    That should fix it  It worked for me in May 2018

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I went to File -  Project Structure -  Modules clicked on   and then import module found my root folder and selected it   It worked    For IntelliJ 14

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For me  it happens when i set Project SDK as JAVA SDK 14 in a react-native project  Upon unset  all the folders show up again

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Try to re-import the Maven project  Also make sure that the project directory name is not excluded in Settings   File Types   Ignore Files and Folders

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If you re trying to open a scala sbt project  the sbt version set in  project build properties must match the sbt version installed on your system or intellij won t detect your project s modules properly   Once that s done  you can just delete the idea folder and restart as the other answers suggest

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I faced same issue when i deleted the  idea folder   However  when I tried to invalidate and re-start  the  idea folder got created again but still the folders were not showing up   I had to 1 close IntelliJ  2 delete the  idea folder  3 launch IntelliJ   This fixed the issue

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I have a better solution that worked for me and it might work for you  No need to delete the whole  idea folder as this way you lose the whole project  It is possible that you just accidentally excluded all folders in project settings  I also found that project folders disappeared  I was trying to find out how to disable indexing  so I was looking at Project Settings -  Modules and I clicked on Excluded to see if I could add the whole project there to ignore it for indexing  It didn t do anything and I couldn t drag and drop the folder under Excluded  What I didn t realize is that simply clicking  Excluded   IntelliJ automatically moves the folder to Excluded and all folders disappeared in Project Explorer   Excluded  button changes background to gray  which means exclusion is active  This is a very poor user interface because it is hardly noticeable and clicking this button has a far-reaching impact on your project   Fix    Open Project Settings -  Modules If Excluded is highlighted  click on it Click Apply or Close   Result  Folders in your project show up again  Really bad bad bad UI design  Source and Excluded buttons look like tabs when they work in fact as  Checkboxes    Be careful  just clicking Sources or Excluded seems like an innocent selection of tab without any visible effect  yet it has far-reaching consequences  basically adding or removing files from the build process

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close intellij delete  idea folder restart intellij click import  select your project create project from existing sources  click next  next  next   And you should be good to go

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For me in IntelliJ it was showing me a popup to import the existing project as gradle project  I just clicked ok on it and then the folder structure appeared properly

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I tried all the solutions above  nothing worked      Java-Maven project  My problem   In my case i had java-maven project  And the problem was that Idea by default uses it s bundled maven for projects or anyone you trying to open    I noticed that bundled maven keeps downloading dependencies forever  i e you never see your sources folder    Solution  So to configure that  one needs to configure Idea to use maven mvn  which is installed on the machine for all projects by default  To do that  in the beginning when Idea still did not open any projects   there is a configure button  There chose build tools  Then maven  there you will see dropdown list where you can choose local maven  In short  Configure Build Tools Maven DropdownMenu   My OS  linux branch   Hope that helps

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Check out answer at  Can  39 t see project folders in IntelliJ IDEA  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

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