Folders missing in project pane in Webstorm

Question

I\'ve built a project in WebStorm and then submitted the project to GitHub.

When I rebooted the computer and relaunched WebStorm (and the project), all I can see in the

Answer 1

I see this from time to time. I use Git, and I have my .gitignore file set up as recommended, specifically:

.idea/workspace.xml
.idea/tasks.xml
.idea/*.iml

I sometimes see this after cloning the repository, and when trying to figure out why, I came across this post and read the accepted answer.

I deleted the modules.xml file and reopened WebStorm (2016.2.4), and it was resolved. I looked at the new modules.xml and found that its contents were exactly the same as before, but my .iml file was bigger.

So it seems to be a corruption in the .iml file, not modules.xml. I assume that deleting modules.xml triggers a rebuild of the .iml file. Not sure if this helps anyone with anything, but thought I would offer the extra insight.