close_project corrupts project workspace

[Ben-Fields]

Description of the bug

In trying to workaround #5701, I discovered that Sublime may remove the value of the "project": key in a project's *.sublime-workspace file. As a result, from the user's perspective, opening the project will not display the associated project folders in the side bar. Additionally, "Project>Edit Project" is greyed out, because there is no longer an association to the project file.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open Sublime Text. Ensure the setting "hot_exit" is enabled.
2. Open a project, MyProject.
3. Close Sublime Text.
4. Open Sublime Text with subl --command close_project
5. Observe that the project's open folders disappear, but the open files of the project workspace remain.
6. Re-opening the project by any method does not return its open folders.

Expected behavior

The project is closed, but may be re-opened later without issue.

Actual behavior

The project cannot be opened.

Sublime Text build number

4169

Operating system & version

Windows 10

(Linux) Desktop environment and/or window manager

No response

Additional information

To work around, either delete MyProject.sublime-workspace for a fresh workspace or:

1. With "hot_exit" enabled, the saved state from "hot_exit" will overwrite the *.sublime-workspace file of any open project, so make sure you close the project before modifying its *.sublime-workspace file.
2. Using a different editor, open MyProject.sublime-workspace and manually replace "project": "" with "project": "MyProject.sublime-project".

OpenGL context information

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