IntelliJ does not show project folders

Question

I have an issue with IntelliJ. It doesn\'t show any folders in my project view on the left. My setting is \"View As: Project\" How can I manage it so that the folders and p

Answer 1

I am a new user of IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2. I opened an existing project when I first ran the program and had the same issue whereby it only showed files in the root directory in the 1. Project panel, but not the project folders (expandable tree-like structure).

Initially, I tried going to Project Settings > Modules, where no modules were shown listed. I clicked (+), and tried to select my root folder, but it wouldn't select the folder.

So I then solved it with these steps instead:

• Exit IntelliJ
• Delete the existing .idea folder (i.e. rm -rf .idea)
• Restart IntelliJ
• Verified that the project root folder now appeared (in Project Settings > Modules)
• Toggle On the toolbar buttons (i.e. 1. Project Structure) to display on the left sidebar (clicked View > Toolbar Buttons until tick appears)
• Click 1. Project Structure toolbar button until its sidebar is revealed
• Click the arrow icon on the left of your project's root directory name that appears to expand the tree folder structure

UPDATE 2nd Sept 2017: If you've added a Module SDK and it added a .iml file within a subdirectory of the root of your project that causes it to load the module subdirectory, then it may be necessary for you to modify that .iml file by appending /.. as shown below.