So according to these sources:
Where is my app placed when deploying to Tomcat using IntelliJ IDEA?
and
Intellji should be:
${dir.to.idea.project}\YourWebApp\out\artifacts
which in my instance would
~/IdeaProjects/projectname/YourWebApp/out/artifacts
However there is only and empty dir under:
~/IdeaProjects/projectname/
I figure this may be the wrong project name folder is there any way to check this and confirm within the IDE.