Can not create an empty project

Hi all,

I have two pycharm projects created, let's name them project1 and project2.

My problem is that every time I create a third project, in the project sidebar I get project2 folder, and If i go to Project Settings -> Project -> Project Structure, the root folder is the path to project2, but at creation time I specified I want to project to be at somepath/project3.

Changing the root directory seems to work, however the project name turns into: project3 [project2] ~/project3. Furthermore now if i open project2, it is also called project3 with project3 structure...

What is this mess? it seems that both projects got somehow linked and what i change in one affects the other...

PS: I checked .idea/misc.xml file and there is a line that says: 

<module fileurl="file://$USER_HOME$/project2/.idea/project2.iml" filepath="$USER_HOME$/project2/.idea/project2.iml" />

And there is no project3.iml file inside .idea. 

 Kind regards