[Django]-PyCharm can't find the right paths if I open a directory that is not the Django root

I had an issue with PyCharm not finding the templates folder for an existing Django project. So I created a test project and saw that the template folder setting is only added when setting up the project (it should be in project-root/.idea/project-name.iml)

Copying the same setting and changing the folder to the correct one fixed the issue for me.

Python requires an __init__.py file in each directory that is a module or part of the project, in pycharm you can add extra paths via preferences