diff --git a/main/src/com/google/refine/importing/ImportingUtilities.java b/main/src/com/google/refine/importing/ImportingUtilities.java
index 143e355f1..ffb9e65ba 100644
--- a/main/src/com/google/refine/importing/ImportingUtilities.java
+++ b/main/src/com/google/refine/importing/ImportingUtilities.java
@@ -1037,7 +1037,6 @@ public class ImportingUtilities {
         ProjectMetadata pm = new ProjectMetadata();
         pm.setName(JSONUtilities.getString(optionObj, "projectName", "Untitled"));
         pm.setTags(JSONUtilities.getStringArray(optionObj, "projectTags"));
-        pm.appendImportOptionMetadata(optionObj);
 
         String encoding = JSONUtilities.getString(optionObj, "encoding", "UTF-8");
         if ("".equals(encoding)) {
diff --git a/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/importing/ImportingUtilitiesTests.java b/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/importing/ImportingUtilitiesTests.java
index 53b706b5f..850c45df3 100644
--- a/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/importing/ImportingUtilitiesTests.java
+++ b/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/importing/ImportingUtilitiesTests.java
@@ -12,11 +12,10 @@ public class ImportingUtilitiesTests extends RefineTest {
 
 	@Test
     public void createProjectMetadataTest() throws Exception {
-		JSONObject optionObj = new JSONObject("{\"projectName\":\"acme\",\"projectTags\":[],\"created\":\"2017-12-18T13:28:40.659\",\"modified\":\"2017-12-20T09:28:06.654\",\"creator\":\"\",\"contributors\":\"\",\"subject\":\"\",\"description\":\"\",\"rowCount\":50,\"customMetadata\":{},\"importOptionMetadata\":[{\"guessCellValueTypes\":false,\"projectTags\":[\"\"],\"ignoreLines\":-1,\"processQuotes\":true,\"fileSource\":\"acme.txt\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"separator\":\"|\",\"storeBlankCellsAsNulls\":true,\"storeBlankRows\":true,\"skipDataLines\":0,\"includeFileSources\":false,\"headerLines\":1,\"limit\":-1,\"projectName\":\"acme\"},{\"guessCellValueTypes\":false,\"projectTags\":[\"\"],\"ignoreLines\":-1,\"processQuotes\":true,\"fileSource\":\"acme.txt\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"separator\":\"|\",\"storeBlankCellsAsNulls\":true,\"storeBlankRows\":true,\"skipDataLines\":0,\"includeFileSources\":false,\"headerLines\":1,\"limit\":-1,\"projectName\":\"acme\"}]}");
+		JSONObject optionObj = new JSONObject("{\"projectName\":\"acme\",\"projectTags\":[],\"created\":\"2017-12-18T13:28:40.659\",\"modified\":\"2017-12-20T09:28:06.654\",\"creator\":\"\",\"contributors\":\"\",\"subject\":\"\",\"description\":\"\",\"rowCount\":50,\"customMetadata\":{}}");
 		ProjectMetadata pm = ImportingUtilities.createProjectMetadata(optionObj);
         Assert.assertEquals(pm.getName(), "acme");
         Assert.assertEquals(pm.getEncoding(), "UTF-8");
         Assert.assertTrue(pm.getTags().length == 0);
-        Assert.assertTrue(pm.getImportOptionMetadata().length() > 0);
     }
 }