Bulk import projects from root folder
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Hi, I've recently switched laptops and copy pasted the `IdeaProjects` folder between them. What I'm trying to do now is find a way to tell Idea "Look there are 100 folders in this root folder, each is a project, import them all separately". I want them all to appear in the Recent projects menu, I don't want to import each one manually. Considering they all already have the `.idea` metadata folder shouldn't this be trivial?
Thanks for any help
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There is no such feature.
You can probably generate options/recentProjects.xml file in the Configuration directory: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/directories-used-by-the-ide-to-store-settings-caches-plugins-and-logs.html#config-directory using your own script or copy the one from your old machine.
Hi Serge Baranov thanks for your suggestion.
I copied the one from my old machine, but looks like idea overrides this file from some other place. I can see the proper file before quitting and reopening, but all the entries are gone when opening. Any idea were it might be getting that data from?
Try disabling the settings sync and settings repository features.
Actually I was wrong, this approach works. I replaced the file before completely quitting idea, so it over wrote it upon exit. Thanks for your help