I feel like I\'m missing something simple at this point. I upgraded to grails 2.1.1 from 1.3.7 while running IntelliJ 10, recently I upgraded to IntelliJ 12 and imported al
Creating a New Project will actually not overwrite any existing code; just point it at your existing project directory, select Grails and open it up.
Your project will now complain that there is no Grails SDK; just point it at your Grails dist and you are good to go.