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Master Mind
Master Mind

Reputation: 3094

Intellij IDEA 14: Error Loading Project: Cannot load module cars-service

With my last restart of my mac I had a problem with IntelliJ IDEA project : the .iml file was deleted and I have

Error loading project: cannot load module cars-service Details ....

in the console.

Besides that, the structure view of the project has disapeared. Here is a screenshot:

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Upvotes: 46

Views: 52698

Answers (8)

Prasetyo Budi
Prasetyo Budi

Reputation: 96

you can fix it by select your pom file. right click and then reimport

Upvotes: 1

kgui
kgui

Reputation: 4163

Closing intelliJ. Deleting the .idea folder and re-opening intellij worked for me.

Upvotes: 31

Roy
Roy

Reputation: 736

Please try File -> Invalidate Caches / Restart ...

Upvotes: 8

gph
gph

Reputation: 101

The error has nothing to do with gems. Please try deleting the .idea directory and using "Open Directory" on the same directory again to recreate it.-- Dmitry Jemerov

↑an answer on intellij-support.jetbrains.com

This helped me. I just closed Pycharm, then delete .idea directory , then I open Pycharm again, and the error disappeared.

Upvotes: 10

robsch
robsch

Reputation: 9728

Had a similar issue with PHPStorm (which is also idea based), caused by a renaming of my project. Solution was simple: I just needed to remove the corresponding line for the module declaration in file <project-directory>/.idea/modules.xml. Re-opening the project was not needed as it seemed to me, but I did it anyway.

Have had this issue with PHPStorm 2017.1.3.

Upvotes: 4

daemone
daemone

Reputation: 1191

This happened to me this morning*, and fortunately there's a fairly straightforward solution.

  1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S (or go to File > Project Structure...) and click Modules on the left of the window.
  2. Click the green + above the list of modules then New Module. Select the type of module (Java, Android, Flash, what have you) and click Next.
  3. Enter the details of the lost module. Click the browse button to the right of Content Root and navigate to the directory that contains your lost module. The module name will be populated with the directory name by default, but you can rename it without issue.

(*I... got a bit gung-ho with the old git clean -fd. I don't recommend it.)

Upvotes: 11

Master Mind
Master Mind

Reputation: 3094

Finally, I imported my project via import project so the iml file was recreated.

Upvotes: 45

user3842083
user3842083

Reputation:

IML file is necessary to load the project.

Locate the folder the .iml file used to be in > right click > Local history > show history.From there you should be able to restore that iml file

Upvotes: 3

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