Intellij not showing project folders (Python project)

Question

This crops up from time to time. One day when I open Intellij my directory listing of the files are all gone and I just see the top level.

I see answers for this question for Java but I'm not using Java for anything. Is there any way to fix this besides deleting the .idea/ folder and setting all my preferences again?

Answer 1

Yes, I noticed this as well and I don't use Python. I can agree that the only solution I found was

1. Close Intellij.
2. Delete .idea folder
3. Open project folder again.

Unfortunately in this case we loose our specific project settings.

One thing for Python is that you need to have a python plugin for Intellij IDEA and I noticed that PyCharm works a little bit better (I guess because it is designed for Python). Maybe you could try to change to PyCharm and see if that helps.