[intellij-idea] How to delete projects in Intellij IDEA 14?

I only found how to delete projects in older versions of IDEA but still don't see the button in my IDEA 14. Did the Jetbrains guys implement this feature or do I still have to delete my project folders manually in file explorer?

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Deleting and Recreating a project with same name is tricky. If you try to follow above suggested steps and try to create a project with same name as the one you just deleted, you will run into error like

'C:/xxxxxx/pom.xml' already exists in VFS

Here is what I found would work.

  1. Remove module
  2. File -> Invalidate Cache (at this point the Intelli IDEA wants to restart)
  3. Close project
  4. Delete the folder form system explorer.
  5. Now you can create a project with same name as before.

You will have to manually delete from the project explorer (your local machine hard drive), then delete the project in IntelliJ when it asks to re-open recent projects.


In my strange case, Intellij remembers forever about my project even if I delete .iml... Thus I did the following:

  1. Close project. Delete the .iml file.
  2. Rename my project directory (say my_proj) to my_proj_backup.
  3. (Possibly not needed) Open my_proj_backup in Intellij and close.
  4. Create an empty directory called my_proj, and open it in Intellij. Then close it.
  5. Remove the my_proj and move my_proj_backup back to my_proj. Then open my_proj in Intellij.

Then it happily forgot the old my_proj :)