Google Cloud Platform not letting me delete project

Question

3 new projects suddenly appeared in my Google Cloud. I don't know where they came from, and I can't delete them.

Following the delete instructions: https://cloud.google.com/go/getting-started#delete-the-project

When I select each of the projects to delete, the delete button disables, and shows the float over message:

You need permissions for this action.
Required permission(s): resourcemanager.projects.delete

All my other projects are fine, and I can delete them.

The three new projects that suddenly appeared are:

My Project 64342    brave-watch-314519
My Project 82497    beaming-light-336511
You can see this project    you-can-see-this-project

Screenshot:

How do I give myself permission to delete them?

Note 1: I am the only owner/user of this Google Cloud account.

Note 2: I also tried going to IAM -> Roles, but got the error:

Many thanks.

Answer 1

It seems to be a known issue with GCP. Leaving “Google Groups” related to GCP is a fix to this issue. You can track this Public Issue for more information.

You might have been added into a project through a group, so it appears in the project list. However, you have not been granted permission to modify the IAM of that project, so you can't remove the group from the permission list.

As a workaround, you can leave "Google Groups" related to GCP and reload the GCP console webpage so that all your unknown/inaccessible projects will disappear from the projects list. You can find what groups you're a member of, using this Google Groups link .

NOTE: You can leave the groups in order to lose the access, but there could be a situation where your email is added to a single role/permission and you would not be able to remove yourself from the IAM list.