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

1. Rename all old*.iml to new*.iml
2. Open this project in Sublime Text, use Ctrl+Shift+F to replace all "old" to "new"

Then reopen this project and build it!

Answer 2

Change your project using refactor. (first change your project folder name).

1. Select Project Name.
2. Select Refactor->Rename
3. Input new Project.

Everything should be ok now.

Answer 3

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".

This was just done on 14 ultimate.

Answer 4

To rename project in IDEA 13 CE

1. Close IDEA project
2. Find project files *.ipr, *.iml, *.iws
3. Rename all these files as you want to be named project e.g. New Project.ipr(iml,iws)
4. Open project file in IDEA

Answer 5

Found the solution.
You can rename the Project under "File > Project Structure > Project > Project Name".

Answer 6

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 {} \;