How to delete projects in IntelliJ 12?

Question

I created some dummy projects. Now I don\'t see any way to delete the projects that I don\'t want. Per this suggestion I can delete files, the project is going away but there is

Answer 1

In my case, I had to delete home/.IntelliJIdea2017.2/config/options/recentProjects.xml . In my file system (Ubuntu) this file appeared for some weird reason not writable and hold a list of projects I couldn't get rid of. Deleting this file and restarting will force Intellij IDEA to create a new one with an empty list of projects.