Renaming a project in IntelliJ IDEA

Question

I have some projects where the directory containing the project is called \"Code\".

When I open IDEA, in my recent projects list all I see is that name.

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Answer 1

1. Rename project in project tree view
2. Rename project folder in project files tree view
3. Rename artifactId and id in pom.xml (if maven is used)

Answer 2

This worked for me:

1. Renamed module folder
2. Updated module name in settings.gradle
3. Updated all build.gradle references
4. rm -rf .idea/modules/[module]
5. Rebuild project

Answer 3

You can change the project name, which is the name that is shown in the recent projects list, like so:

Go to Project Structure (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S) → Project Settings / Project → Project name:

Please note that this is not to be confused with name of the root module, or folder on the file system, which may or may not be similar.

Edit

Please try going into your .idea folder in the project, create a file named .name and enter a project name on a single line.

e.g.

my-new-project-name

Then restart IntelliJ.

This presumes you are using a folder-based Idea project in .idea (rather than file based, with .iws file etc)

Answer 4

I recently figured out a way to do this.

I wrote a bash script that you run from the root folder of your project (only tested on Mac) to rename all of the files in the .idea folder that contain your project name, and do a find-replace inside those files.

BE CAREFUL: Make sure your project name is unique - i.e., a project name like 'towers-of-hanoi' is unique and the script will have no problems, but a project called 'a' will, as all instances of 'a' in the files will be replaced with the new project name.

Answer 5

Tips for renaming a Gradle project

1. Exit IntelliJ IDEA

2. Edit contents of the following files {project_root}/settings.gradle {project_root}/.idea/.name

3. Open IntelliJ IDEA

4. Refresh Gradle Project

Answer 6

Meanwhile I talk about IntelliJ 2016.2.

There are various names involved.

1. Red the folder name. I.e., the folder where the project is located. This name appears the the project structure and in the path on the top window.
2. Blue the name of the iml file. You can rename the iml file, when the iml file is different from the folder name, you have them both in the project view.
3. Yellow the project name can be set as described by @vikingsteve (Project Structure (ctrl-alt-shift-s) -> Project Settings / Project -> Project name) in the response above. You will find the project name written in the file ".name" in the .idea folder. It is also the name which appears in the open recent file list.
4. brown if your project is a maven project, you will additionally have the artifact id in the pom.

Usually all these names are the same which makes life easier.

Sometimes they are not. There are many reasons why they should be different. E.g., this helps me to differentiate project versions (I also use the image background feature of IntelliJ 2016.2) when I have simultaneously the same project on two branches.

While you change these names, IntellJ may generate a new *.iml with the artifactId name (brown). In this case just delete the *.iml file you don't want to keep.