Unable to delete project even with ddev delete --omit-snapshot <name>

[begrafx]

Running MacOS Mojave, I have a folder called Projects and in there, I place the various folders for ddev projects. (i.e. Projects/site1, Projects/site2, etc. ) recently, fingers working faster than the brain, I did a ddev config in the Projects root. I attempted a ddev delete --omit-snapshot Projects and the result was

$ ddev delete --omit-snapshot Projects OK to delete this project and its database? Projects in /Users/brianeller-mini/Projects The code and its .ddev directory will not be touched. OK to delete Projects? [Y/n] (yes): yes Network ddev_default is external, skipping Deleting database. Volume Projects-mariadb for project Projects was deleted Unable to delete drud/ddev-dbserver-mariadb-10.2:v1.15.1-Projects-built: no such image Unable to delete drud/ddev-webserver:v1.15.3-Projects-built: no such image Project Projects was deleted. Your code and configuration are unchanged. Network ddev_default is external, skipping Brians-Mac-mini:Projects brianeller-mini$ ddev list NAME TYPE LOCATION URL STATUS 829 drupal8 ~/Projects/829 stopped D8-Themer drupal8 ~/Projects/d8_themer stopped Projects php ~/Projects .ddev/config.yaml missing

So it's still there. Is there another command I should be using to get rid of that? I'm still relatively new to DDEV, so I prefer to ask questions, rather than blow something up.

[rfay]

That looked successful to me. Does ddev list still show it?

[begrafx]

Yes.

Projects php ~/Projects .ddev/config.yaml missing

[rfay]

You can always just delete that line from ~/.ddev/global_config.yaml

I wasn't able to read the output of your delete command very well; you can use three backticks on a line before and after to keep everything with linebreaks.

[begrafx]

That worked. Thank you. I'm always hesitant to just go editing files if I'm not certain of the result. I appreciate your prompt responses.

[rfay]

Thanks! Closing, happy to continue the conversation.

[gitressa]

I have also accidentally created a DDEV project in my development folder ~/dev (/home/username/dev). I have done this more than once, both when I was just starting with DDEV, and even recently.

For me it was the other way around. I was getting a .ddev/config.yaml missing message, even though there was no mention of a "dev" project in the ~/.ddev/global_config.yaml file.

$ ddev list
┌─────────┬───────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────────────────────┬──────────┐
│ NAME    │ STATUS                    │ LOCATION      │ URL                     │ TYPE     │
├─────────┼───────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ mydev   │ OK                        │ ~/dev/mydev   │ https://mydev.ddev.site │ drupal10 │
├─────────┼───────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ dev     │ .ddev/config.yaml missing │ ~/dev         │                         │          │

[...]

Running ddev delete dev --omit-snapshot fixed it, and the lingering project is no longer in the list.

Since new and even seasoned DDEV users may run DDEV commands where they really didn't want to, I wonder if it would make sense to add a feature, where you can define "safe" folders to run DDEV commands from? I have created #5493.

[ariademur]

You can always just delete that line from ~/.ddev/global_config.yaml

I had the same problem and for me the file to edit was ~/.ddev/project_list.yaml.
Hope this helps someone.

P.S. Thank you very much for the great project!

[rpkoller]

that is correct @ariademur, as well as @gitressa's comment was correct back then. before ddev 1.23.0 the project list was contained within the global_config.yaml file. with the release of 1.23.0 in april the projects got moved to the newly introduced project_list.yaml file. just to provide some context for anyone stumbling about both comments. thank you for noticing and commenting!