PhpStorm hides directories in Project window

Question

I\'m using PhpStorm 6.0.3, and it doesn\'t show any directories in the Project Tool Window. They were there just a minute ago but I managed to make them disappear by clicking or

Answer 1

I just experienced this problem in phpStorm 9 where I was trying to create a project from existing files but phpstorm could not see the directory. Very weird.

So what I did was I instead went to "create new project" and manually put in the location box the path to an existing directory. On the next screen it asked something like "directory exists, do you want to create project from these files?" and that worked.