Greetings,
i am working with ionic 1.5.5, i created a project using “ionic start app” command. Unfortunately, a weird behavior occurred, the “platform” and “plugin” folders were added out of the main project folder (where i can find “config.xml”).
have you installed an ionic project in the folder above the project folder which you want to run? Lke project inside of a project? This could cause this issue, even if you remove the platforms or plugin folders. You have to completey seperate those projects.