Amplify-cli: Cannot recreate team-provider-info.json

[kernwig]

Describe the bug
After issue #3273 deleted the team-provider-info.json file, I tried to recreate it per the instructions at https://aws-amplify.github.io/docs/cli-toolchain/quickstart#team-members-sharing-the-same-dev-backend

Upon issuing amplify init though, it does not ask Do you want to use an existing environment? as shown in the documentation - it proceeds to create a new project in Amplify Console with the same name as the old one.

Amplify CLI Version
4.10.0

To Reproduce
Create an Amplify project, delete team-provider-info.json, and then try and pull the environment back from the cloud.

Expected behavior
I expect to be able to reconnect tho the cloud resources without a team-provider-info.json file, as is recommended for public repositories at the end of this part of the documentation: https://aws-amplify.github.io/docs/cli-toolchain/quickstart#sharing-projects-outside-the-team-

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Mac v10.15.2
• Node Version: 10.16.3

[keponk]

ran into a similar situation. Was able to repopulate the file it using $ amplify pull --appId abcxyz123 --envName dev , same line displayed on the amplify console to start editing an environment. For this to work I needed to delete the amplify folder itself though.

[tabrza]

I also ran into something similar and found that the following command helped resolve the issue

amplify configure project

pulled from this issue #3161