Beeing late for the party just wanna say this behaviour of the IDE can be caused when it considers your project as a Java project. You can understand this from your project_name.iml file. There should be a tag like <module type="JAVA_MODULE"... If it's not the case of your project you can just close it, remove .iml file and be sure to remove the .idea folder also. Next time you open your project in IDEA you will get "New - Directory" menu back again.