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Jim L.
Jim L.

Reputation: 6529

In IntelliJ, How Do I Fix "These Files Do Not Belong to the Project"?

I recently put several old, yucky git directory structures into one new, clean structure in SVN, then pulled the entire SVN repository back out into a new, clean, local git repository. One IntelliJ project was so messed up I had to import the old IntelliJ project, which created a new .iml file having a better name, and deleted the old .iml file. I reconfigured everything, committed back into SVN, and verified other people could open the project and build.

Today I tried to edit a file for the first time in this project and got the message, "These files do not belong to the project". IntelliJ offers to unlock the file or all non-project files in the current session, but both options sound wrong. What have I done to myself, and how do I fix it?

Upvotes: 79

Views: 85937

Answers (21)

Alan-mid
Alan-mid

Reputation: 11

work for me:

  1. Delete .idea folder

  2. File -> Repair IDE -> Rescan Project Indexes (on the right bottom)

WebStorm 2024.1.5. MacOS

Upvotes: 1

judy.f
judy.f

Reputation: 1

working on intellij 2023.3.3 and I encountered this problem recently. I hope this helps someone, the repair IDE didn't work for me but this did : From File-> Reload All from disk -> (intellij then rescans the project indexes) -> Reopen Project worked for me.

Upvotes: 0

Android Dev
Android Dev

Reputation: 19

Simple.

  1. Close your Intellij idea of the particular project.
  2. Goto your project folder in the file explorer and look for .idea folder.
  3. Delete it. Reopen the project in IntelliJ.
  4. Now your project files are loaded and could be edited.

Upvotes: 0

macness
macness

Reputation: 11

Check: Settings > Project > Project Structure and verify that your files/folder are not excluded. If they are, right click and uncheck Excluded, or click on the "x" (highlighted in red circle)

(sorry, I can't post an inline image yet) Image of Settings Dialog

Upvotes: 1

Indy660
Indy660

Reputation: 321

Had same problem on Ubuntu (Webstorm), got answer from Intellij.

There are no content roots in your project, so all your files are treated as non-project files. As I wrote your .idea files are likely broken, the .iml file and/or modules.xml are either missing or corrupted. Deleting and re-creating .idea folder should help:

-close the project

-remove it from Recent projects list

-shut down the IDE

-delete the .idea folder

-restart, open the project root folder with File > Open

https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/requests/3779670?page=1

Upvotes: 22

shmuels
shmuels

Reputation: 1393

For me it was because I had moved a project to wsl by copying the files from wsl to windows. When I switched branches the file must've been open from before and was the windows version of it and not the wsl one.

I noticed this finally by looking on top of the file tab and seeing the path as C:\User...\filename instead of \\wsl$....\filename.

Upvotes: 0

Charbel Semaan
Charbel Semaan

Reputation: 23

PyCharm > Preferences > Project > Project Structure > Add Content Root

Somehow PyCharm lost the project root directory in my case

Upvotes: 1

OptatootatpO
OptatootatpO

Reputation: 123

make sure to include all project files in the project. Use Settings -> project structure.

Upvotes: 0

anilsathyan7
anilsathyan7

Reputation: 1793

From File-> Repair IDE -> Rescan Project Indexes -> Reopen Project worked for me.

Upvotes: 70

Brian Mutiso
Brian Mutiso

Reputation: 400

In my case the above methods didn't help, I just deleted .idea file in project and reset the Jetbrain IDE to default settings and it worked normally.

NB: You will loose all your settings and plugins, but if you don't mind this might help as the last resort like in my case. I am using Jetbrain,

Upvotes: 0

shizhen
shizhen

Reputation: 12583

This warning is an IDE issue that Android Studio cannot recognise the current directory if it does not include any source files. So, adding am empty source file, e.g empty_xxx.c under the directory in question and adding below line in CMakeList.txt

add_library(${TARGET_NAME_XXX} SHARED ${SOME_DIR_HAVING_THIS_WARNING}/empty_xxx.c)

will help get rid of this warning.

Upvotes: 0

yoshinator
yoshinator

Reputation: 485

Similar issue with WebStorm. The difference was I had to shutdown the IDE completely and then remove .idea folder rm -rf .idea I tried doing it with the IDE open and going to file File -> Invalidate Caches but that did not fix the problem for me.

Upvotes: 3

Daniel Aviv
Daniel Aviv

Reputation: 159

Close your JetBrains IDE, then open a Terminal window and navigate to your project's root folder, and run these 2 commands:

rm -rf .idea

and then

rm -rf .git

NOTE: you'll probably have to connect your project back to your git repository, so if you have any uncommitted changes make sure to commit and push them beforehand to avoid losing them.

Upvotes: -3

nouveu
nouveu

Reputation: 476

In my case it was auto-generated .gitignore, I had entries like:

### npm ###
node
node_modules
frontend-dest
data/

And in project files I had java package called like com.company.test.data which matched last pattern. I strongly recommend to check it before removing .idea/ files and invalidating cache.

Upvotes: 0

Taylor
Taylor

Reputation: 45

For me the above did not help. I ended up going Project Structure -> Modules -> + at the top narrow middle column -> browsed through files to select the Project Folder -> apply -> ok -> all is done and working correctly.

Upvotes: 3

stefanbschneider
stefanbschneider

Reputation: 6086

My problem was much simpler than expected: I was trying to run a Jupyter notebook and got the error - because it was inside a folder that was marked "excluded" in the project structure.

Simply moving the notebook out of the excluded folder solved my problem.

Upvotes: 0

thephpdev
thephpdev

Reputation: 1117

It's probably listed in one of the XML config files in .idea/*.xml.

Just do a find of that folder for the name of the file in question, and remove the entry for it from the XML.

Mine was listed in .idea/workspace.xml within the following node: <component name="TypeScriptGeneratedFilesManager">.

I removed the option, then invalidated caches and restarted, and now the file is marked as a standard, non-generated file again. This way you can keep all your settings without exporting them and importing them.

Upvotes: 4

Astra Bear
Astra Bear

Reputation: 2738

Same problem. File was considered not part of the project even if I deleted it and created a new one with the same name.

To fix,I highlighted the project node in the left panel, selected "File/Invalidate caches and restart" from the top menu.

After the restart I had to set my file as a JS file (right click, set as JavaScript), close and reopen the project. All fixed.

Upvotes: 2

Sidonai
Sidonai

Reputation: 3686

This happened for me when I ignored the .idea/ files. Just do

rm -rf .idea/

And then File -> Invalidate Caches/Restart -> Invalidate And Restart.

Upvotes: 112

stelios
stelios

Reputation: 2845

This also happened for me when I opened the project through a symlink (parent directory) or when the python interpreter was inside a symlink directory (because of virtualenv).

Reopening through the original directory tree (after fighting hard with the IDE to forget its beloved project settings), solved the issue.

Upvotes: 15

Jim L.
Jim L.

Reputation: 6529

I figured out the problem. The file was still open from before all the shuffling, and was apparently pointing at the original file in its original location! I closed the editor and reopened the file from the project tree without a problem. I hope this helps someone else someday.

Upvotes: 36

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