How to delete projects in Intellij IDEA 14?

Solution 1:

1. Choose project, right click, in context menu, choose Show in Explorer (on Mac, select Reveal in Finder).

2. Choose menu File \ Close Project

3. In Windows Explorer, press Del or Shift+Del for permanent delete.

4. At IntelliJ IDEA startup windows, hover cursor on old project name (what has been deleted) press Del for delelte.

Solution 2:

Deleting and Recreating a project with same name is tricky. If you try to follow above suggested steps and try to create a project with same name as the one you just deleted, you will run into error like

'C:/xxxxxx/pom.xml' already exists in VFS

Here is what I found would work.

1. Remove module
2. File -> Invalidate Cache (at this point the Intelli IDEA wants to restart)
3. Close project
4. Delete the folder form system explorer.
5. Now you can create a project with same name as before.