IntelliJ IDEA how to completely delete a project, intellijidea

IntelliJ IDEA how to completely delete a project, intellijidea

This article describes how to delete a project from IntelliJ IDEA, share it with you, and take notes for yourself, as shown below:

Step1.

Use IDEA to open the project to be deleted, right-click the project file, select Remove Module, or press Delete

Step2.

The deletion prompt will pop up later, "Remove Module 'xxx' from the project? No files will be deleted ."
It means to remove the specified module, but no file is deleted. That is to say, the module is removed and the files on the disk are still

After clicking "OK", you can see that there are still some files in the list. These files are files outside of the module. The deleted files are only the project module.

Step3.

Right-click the file and select Show in Explorer to quickly open the file on the disk.

You can also manually find the position of the project on the disk.

After opening the disk directory, you can see that all the project files are in, and there are many

IDEA deletion is logical deletion, and files on the disk must be manually deleted.

Step 4.

Before manually deleting a File, select the IDEA File menu and select Close Project to Close the Project.

Next, the IDEA welcome homepage appears. Place the cursor over the project to be deleted. You can see a × delete button in the upper right corner and click Delete.

Step5.

Finally, manually delete the project files on the disk. The project files can be completely deleted!

When manually deleting files on a disk, pay more attention to it to prevent files from being irrecoverable.

It is deleted in IDEA. If you still want it, you can open it again.

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