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IntelliJ nice way to duplicate an existing project

Have your base project open
From the project use Right Click → Refactor → Copy...

Give it a new name and select the Parent Directory

IntelliJ creates it but does not open it automatically
Go to nav{File > Open...}
Select the folder with your new project, here new-project

Changes to reflect the new project properties

In the POM

To reflect the new project. Important fields are

1. artifactId,
2. name
3. description
4. main-class (in the properties tag)

In the File → Project Structure...

You can change the following things
Project Name

Module Name under Modules

The actual Java Class

Navigate to one of the Java Classes in your new project and hit
Right-click → Refactor → Rename...
And rename it to reflect your new project.

Nice things to have

If you want to have things getting copied to your Fiji installation when you hit install

<scijava.app.directory>C:/My_Fiji/</scijava.app.directory>
<scijava.app.subdirectory>plugins/My_Dir</scijava.app.subdirectory>

This should be between the <properties> tabs