How to delete projects in Intellij IDEA 14?
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.
- Remove module
- File -> Invalidate Cache (at this point the Intelli IDEA wants to restart)
- Close project
- Delete the folder form system explorer.
- Now you can create a project with same name as before.
1. Choose project, right click, in context menu, choose Show in Explorer
(on Mac, select Reveal in Finder
).
2. Choose menu File \ Close Project
3. In Windows Explorer, press Del or Shift+Del for permanent delete.
4. At IntelliJ IDEA startup windows, hover cursor on old project name (what has been deleted) press Del for delelte.