.project files, .settings folders, bin folders keep auto generating in VSCode after an accidental IntelliJ Maven import

Question

After trying to import an existing project made from scratch with Maven pom files and a single .project file from working with a diagram in Eclipse into IntelliJ a whole bunch of .settings folders, bin directories (src, target, pom), and .project files with the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<projectDescription>
    <name>xyz</name>
    <comment></comment>
    <projects>
    </projects>
    <buildSpec>
        <buildCommand>
            <name>org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Builder</name>
            <arguments>
            </arguments>
        </buildCommand>
    </buildSpec>
    <natures>
        <nature>org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Nature</nature>
    </natures>
</projectDescription>

Note that before I did the import I did have a single .project file in one of my directories, from working with a diagram in Eclipse.

Any idea what happened? And why VSCode is continuously auto generating all of this random stuff ever since the IntelliJ import.

I am used to just having my Pom files throughout.

Answer 1

Apparently this problem is generated by extensions related to the java language. I solved this by removing the java extensions.

According to similarities that can be seen in this open issue:

https://github.com/redhat-developer/vscode-java/issues/634