How do remove a project in qt creator?

Question

When I right click a project, the "Remove project" menu is disabled. Why?

I tried to remove the .pro file which gave me a confusing result.

• First I got a message that I could not remove it.
• Then I got a dialog asking if I also wanted to remove it from version control.
• Finally, I got a messge that the file was gone, clicking it confirmed its non existence, it is still visible in the "projects" treeview however.

Answer 1

You don't remove a project. You close it: File menu->Close Project. You can then delete the file or do whatever you want. I suggest that you acquaint yourself with qmake sufficiently to be able to manually create project files. They are really simple. A project file for a widgets-based project is quite trivial:

QT = widgets
CONFIG += c++11
TEMPLATE = app
SOURCES += main.cpp mywidget.cpp
HEADERS += mywidget.h

Answer 2

go to File>recent projects>clear menu. DONE!