Renaming a project in IntelliJ IDEA

问题:

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.

Is there any method to change this in settings ?

I tried going to File->Project Structure->Project, I couldn't find the Project Name option in IntelliJ IDEA 13.

I see this in my project settings.

回答1:

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)

回答2:

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.

回答3:

Actually this is a maven project and its name is defined from the maven pom.xml So if you want to change the name you need to change its name in pom.xml
from

 <artifactId>Code</artifactId>

to

 <artifactId>My-prject-name</artifactId>

回答4:

Following are the steps to be followed in IntelliJ Idea Community Edition:

1. Go to File >> Project Structure >> Project > Project Name Update project name with its new name.

2. Go to pom.xml Update project name with its new name in the

3. Select "Project" view and click root folder of the project then refactor its name.

4. Exit IntelliJ Idea and Rename root folder name in the windows directory structure where this project repository is stored.

5. Restart IntelliJ Idea and import the project using "Import project from existing resource" option.

回答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

回答6:

Am using intellij 2017.2.6

• Go to project view

• Right Click on the top root element

• Choose Refactor-> Rename

• Small dialog appear -> enter the desired name

• Click ok

回答7:

I completed the renaming as below.

The attached image is structured in project folder.

Must make changes in the xml into a new project name.

1. close IDEA intellij (14.0.2)

2. change intellij project name (folder)

   e.g) old_project_name -> new_project_name

3. change .idea in folder

We have only changed the

1) artifacts in folder -> xml

2) runConfigurations in folder -> xml

3) modules.xml

4) workspace.xml

5) [your_project_name].iml

(Depending on your project structure, your folder may not contain xml)

4. restart IDEA intellij

5. File -> Import Module...[your intellij project]

I hope this helps you :)

回答8:

If your project is file based, you cannot rename the project from within IDEA.

Convert your project to a directory based format, and then you will have the option to rename it under "File > Project Structure > Project > Project Name".

回答9:

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.

回答10:

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)

回答11:

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