Engineers make changes to projects. It can happen that they removed or renamed a source file. In that case, the file is marked.


As an example, we defined a reference to file fake.json in the Piwik .rigproj file. Project files that do not exist on disk are marked in the Solution Editor:



To remove that file from the project, execute the following steps:

  1. In the tree view, select the file that must be removed.

  2. Right-click to see the context menu.

  3. Select Exclude from project.


The file is removed from the source files overview.


Tip: You can remove all unused files from a project at once.

Use the context menu at project level: