IntelliJ IDEA: How to rename a project (in “Recent Projects” list)?

Question

Is there an easy way in IDEA 12 to rename a project in the \"Recent Projects\" list?

Answer 1

I've tried the answer of @Matthias, @Ernest and @fhucho, but did not work (with 12.1.6CE).

What made it work was:

1. change the name of the project folder
2. find and rename the .ipr file, as proposed by @Ernest
   • Note: I did not have any .iml nor .iws file
3. change the name in .idea/.name

4. replace all occurrences for the initial project name by the new one in all .xml files

   • find them using:

   find . -name "*.xml" -exec grep -Hn $InitProjectName {} \;