Remove project after adding it to an existing project

Hi there,

Just focus that project node in the Project View panel and hit Delete (or right click and "Remove from Project View)

Thanks, Andriy! :-)

It is quite an adventure to find the right node, when the domains consist of lots of dots like

dev.vox.or.de.lokal
dev.vox.or.at.lokal

Seems that I should adapt my way of writing local testdomains :-)

Hopping onto the same question, why do I not get the option to remove a project from the project view? I only get the option to physically delete the project instead.

This is on Windows 10 and PhpStorm 2018.3, btw.

Are you clicking on a top-most project? You can't remove it from a project view because it's a "parent" or "main" project. 

No, I am not. Clicking on the top-most one doesn't give me any delete option. I had to manually delete the <module... entry in modules.xml to get rid of it again.

Confirmed - ran into exaclty the same issue. 

Main project open -> open another project -> attach -> when clicking on *attached project folder* in projects tool window only *delete* is available.

My observations - the attached project was already created before as the main in PhpStorm. When I create a new folder and attach it, the *remove project from view* does show up.

For now, only manual removal from modules.xml is the way to go.  

I'm facing the same issue.
Also, not sure if it's related, from time to time, when I'm trying to open just one projects it opens the view with other projects.

So I believe it's somehow related to the way how view configs are stored.

I would like to help with further investigation, but need to strict instructions.
For instance, where can I find "modules.xml"?

Update:
Found modules.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2 │ <project version="4">
3 │ <component name="ProjectModuleManager">
4 │ <modules>
5 │ <module fileurl="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/.idea/common-header.iml" filepath="$PROJECT_DIR$/.idea/common-header.iml" />
6 │ <module fileurl="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/../cwf-1-new-splash/.idea/cwf-1-new-splash.iml" filepath="$PROJECT_DIR$/../cwf-1-new-
│ splash/.idea/cwf-1-new-splash.iml" />
7 │ <module fileurl="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/../cwf-product-config-webdev/.idea/cwf-product-config-webdev.iml" filepath="$PROJECT_
│ DIR$/../cwf-product-config-webdev/.idea/cwf-product-config-webdev.iml" />
8 │ </modules>
9 │ </component>
10 │ </project>

Remove button was not available, but backspace did removal from project view.

Yadmitriy what IDE version are you using? We have reports that this problem no longer occurs in version 2019.3.1.

If you're on that version and still affected - please attach the project's /.idea folder archived in a comment to https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-46099. You can set visibility of the attachment to "idea-developers" or similar

Same problem here in PyCharm. I was having this issue for a couple of days. Here is my about section (licensed removed for privacy reason):

PyCharm 2019.3.4 (Professional Edition)
Build #PY-193.6911.25, built on March 18, 2020
Runtime version: 11.0.6+8-b520.43 amd64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
Linux 5.3.0-45-generic
Non-Bundled Plugins: NodeJS, String Manipulation, com.jetbrains.plugins.jade, com.ppolivka.gitlabprojects, mobi.hsz.idea.gitignore, name.kropp.intellij.makefile, org.jetbrains.plugins.node-remote-interpreter, org.jetbrains.plugins.vue, ru.adelf.idea.dotenv, ru.meanmail.plugin.requirements
SO: Ubuntu 18.04.

@... please attach the project's /.idea folder archived in a comment to https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-46099. You can set visibility of the attachment to "idea-developers" or similar

I 'm sorry but this project isn't mine, any data about it couldn't be share. If you need something more specifict I could try to offusc names. If this is not possible I need to ask permission to share it.

Basically, the ".idea" directories should be enough, there is no need to upload any part of your codebase.

Also, you may change comment/attachment visibility settings to "PhpStorm Team" to make these private. 

The ".idea" directories contains information about proyect, directories and file names of my project. Not only codebase is important. That is the reason because I couldn't give you that information. I will try to offusc that information and upload it for phpstorm team.

Regards.

Hi,

I met the same issue in PhpStorm 2020.2.

I've created the issue https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-55636

I hope you can find the reason.

The same issue still persists in ver 2021.3.1 

I have to go through the .idea/modules.xml file and manually delete the project entry.

Is it reproducible for you reliably? If it is - it would be great if you could submit this to our tracker at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/newIssue.

I have what sounds like this problem in IntelliJ 2023.1.

Can't see how to remove the second one.

Things with projects are bit different in the IntelliJ IDEA.
Please check what you have in "File > Project Structure > Module" first.

The second project that I want to remove does not appear among the modules in Project Settings.

I'm encountering the same issue: I'm unable to remove the second project that was recently attached. 
phpstorm 2023

We can't reproduce the issue, no matter how hard we tried - I even tried using a customer's config, caches, and projects, and still, the button was there for me. It must be some kind of a race condition or something.

Kapreski, as a workaround, please remove the .idea folder from the carrier project while it's closed - your settings will be lost, but at least you'll get rid of the attached project.

Or, you can just open the .idea/modules.xml file and remove the module manually.

Eugene Morozov I was able to remove the project  without deleting the .idea folder by following Yadmitriy 's suggestion and editing the modules.xml file within the .idea folder.