I have a better solution that worked for me and it might work for you. No need to delete the whole .idea folder as this way you lose the whole project. It is possible that you just accidentally excluded all folders in project settings. I also found that project folders disappeared. I was trying to find out how to disable indexing, so I was looking at Project Settings -> Modules and I clicked on Excluded to see if I could add the whole project there to ignore it for indexing. It didn't do anything and I couldn't drag and drop the folder under Excluded. What I didn't realize is that simply clicking "Excluded", IntelliJ automatically moves the folder to Excluded and all folders disappeared in Project Explorer. "Excluded" button changes background to gray, which means exclusion is active. This is a very poor user interface because it is hardly noticeable and clicking this button has a far-reaching impact on your project.

Fix:

打开项目设置->模块 如果“排除”突出显示，单击它 单击应用或关闭

结果: 项目中的文件夹再次显示出来

非常糟糕的UI设计!源和排除按钮看起来像标签时，他们的工作实际上是“复选框”!

注意，仅仅单击Sources或Excluded似乎是一个没有任何可见效果的选项卡选择，但它具有深远的影响，基本上是从构建过程中添加或删除文件。

对我来说，从项目目录中删除。idea文件夹是可行的。

我有一个nodeJs项目，删除/[project_name]后丢失了我的文件夹。安恩科技文件。

这恢复文件夹，同时保留我的其他项目设置:

项目设置>模块 +添加内容根目录

删除项目文件夹中的。idea 使用项目文件夹作为现有源代码创建一个新项目

我是IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2的新用户。当我第一次运行该程序时，我打开了一个现有的项目，并且有相同的问题，其中它只显示根目录中的文件在1。项目面板，而不是项目文件夹(可展开的树状结构)。

最初，我尝试去项目设置>模块，那里没有显示列出的模块。我点击(+)，并试图选择我的根文件夹，但它不会选择文件夹。

所以我用以下步骤来解决这个问题:

Exit IntelliJ Delete the existing .idea folder (i.e. rm -rf .idea) Restart IntelliJ Verified that the project root folder now appeared (in Project Settings > Modules) Toggle On the toolbar buttons (i.e. 1. Project Structure) to display on the left sidebar (clicked View > Toolbar Buttons until tick appears) Click 1. Project Structure toolbar button until its sidebar is revealed Click the arrow icon on the left of your project's root directory name that appears to expand the tree folder structure

2017年9月2日更新:如果你已经添加了一个模块SDK，并且它在你的项目根目录的子目录中添加了一个。iml文件，这导致它加载模块子目录，那么你可能需要修改这个。iml文件，通过追加/..如下图所示。

  <component name="NewModuleRootManager" inherit-compiler-output="true">
    <exclude-output />
    <content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/..">

我在删除。idea文件夹时也遇到了同样的问题。

然而，当我试图使其失效并重新启动时，.idea文件夹再次创建，但仍然没有显示文件夹。

我不得不这么做。关闭IntelliJ, 2.删除。idea文件夹;发射IntelliJ

这解决了问题。