On the first run, PyCharm always creates this placeholder project named “PyCharmMiscProject” in my home directory. I know it’s trying to be newcomer-friendly, and that there’s the “Show this page on startup” setting, but I simply don’t need this feature. How do I get it to be disabled by default so that I won’t have to delete the placeholder project every time I reset the sandbox?
I don’t want to resort to modifying permissions. Ideally, the solution should work either machine-wise or user-wise (as opposed to, say, setting a custom property in the build script).
This also frustrates me that PyCharm creates this placeholder project every time it’s run for the first time. I really wish JetBrains would restore the previous settings, where the user had more control over what gets created by default, and at least respond to this issue instead of ignoring it.
Yup. There really needs to be an option to disable this behavior. Or it should stop creating this once you have taken actions in the app (like added your own project) that shows you know what you are doing.
Just close your open project and switch off the “Enable no-modal Welcome screen” checkbox on the bottom. Exit PyCharm and open it. You should now be on the good old projects menu window, remove the PyCharmMiscProject from the list and the directory shouldn’t appear again! (This worked for me on Fedora 43 Workstation with GNOME)