2023.3.2 forgets all the errors I corrected (with/alongside AI) on 12/30/23; turns a single file into the project, project no longer shows in project lists

Over the weekend, I corrected a number of issues. I did not work Monday, yesterday. But today, on opening PyCharm, all those issues were back as if I had not done anything.

The problem over the weekend was that PyCharm decided the project, “hattie” should vanish, a new project named for the file ”new_filename_parse.txt”, given an empty site-packages, no interpreter, and no venv.

Eventually I got all that fixed, renamed the “new_filename_parse” to hattie-2 (because the original hattie is now nowhere to be found), changed it back to the correct interpreter and venv.

But when I came to work today, PyCharm forgot everything I had done.

The original hattie, hattie-2, and new_filename_parse are all gone, but now 2023-09-20 hattie’s venv.html is the name of a project, when actually it is just another file inside the hattie project. Just like before, I had no interpreter, no site-packages, and no venv. Fixing that gave me a brand new, virtually empty venv.

Frankly, this really pisses me off. I have already spent more time with this nonsense than with any of the actual work I should be doing. The whole point of a tool like this is to make work easier, not set it back a week just for kicks.

The 2023-09-20 hattie's venv.html file, coincidentally, was written about the silent python upgrades you keep sending me without warning, notice, or the opportunity to determine when the upgrade should happen, if at all. How do I find out? Because PyCharm tells me the project I worked on the day before suddenly has no interpreter, and with that, no venv and no site-packages, either. HOW DO I GET YOU TO STOP DOING THAT!!!!?????!

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