I am working on a large project using IntelliJ 14.1 latest.
Recently, whenever I stop editing for a minute or so, IntelliJ freezes for several minutes with the message "Executing pre-compile tasks...:" followed by the message "All files are up-to-date".
Any idea what is causing this behavior and what I can do to prevent it?
I faced this problem and it drove me nuts for about 3 days. The existing answers did not solve it. Neither did deleting preferences, caches, re-installing IntelliJ on my machine helped. I even tried to turn my Mac off and on again
Finally, what worked for me was to delete the .idea folder (which is usually located in the root of project)
Of course I feel stupid. Hope this helps someone else because this is one of the top hits for those keywords.
IntelliJ version : IDEA 2019.2.3 (Community Edition) on macOS 10.14.6
Your problem becasue 2 things:
- In source code have pre-compile script.
- IntelliJ IDEA build project automaticaly when IDE is idle.
Solution:
Choose menu File \ Settings... or press combine keys: Ctrl+Alt+S.
Choose Build, Execution, Deployment \ Compiler , uncheck item Make project autimatically (only work while not running / debugging)
or type in search box at top-left corner, search keyword something like the above.
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Yesterday, I upgraded my IntelliJ IDEA (Community Edition) to the 2022.3.1 (Build #IC-223.8214.52, built on December 20, 2022) version. All the folders, files and an entire directory structure is gone, leaving only pom.xml.
I've tried closing and re-opening the project 10 times, but it didn't help.
I've also tried invalidating all the cache - didn't help as well.
Any help?
Btw, IntelliJ IDEA gets worse and worse in the course of last few years, and I know plenty of people around saying the same.
Try File > Invalidate caches... > Check the first checkbox > Invalidate and Restart.
Here's a fun one. I did search for this issue but didn't seem to find anything that helped, including the following questions which seemed most closely related:
Why am I getting "Local path does not exist" from my Android project in IntelliJ IDEA?
IntelliJ IDEA: Project SDK Settings is not retained after reopenning IDE
Version info:
MacBook Pro mid-2014 (Intel), Big Sur 11.2.1
IntelliJ IDEA 2021.2.2 (Community Edition)
Build #IC-212.5284.40, built on September 13, 2021
Runtime version: 11.0.12+7-b1504.28 x86_64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
macOS 11.2.1
Kotlin: 212-1.5.10-release-IJ5284.40
Issue description: On opening an existing project, importing the related module, and selecting the SDK, everything works fine. However, the recent projects list shows what appears to be a random, temporary path to the project IML:
The path you see in the screenshot is not the path that leads to the IML. Not even by a long shot. This is created when opening the project initially but, on exiting IDEA, it seemingly disappears and I have to reimport the project all over again. I am stumped here. I spent a couple of days digging through SO, and the internet in general but can't seem to find anything related to this specific error or anything that has helped at all. Any input would be great. This is on a fresh installation of IDEA, and I have cleared the caches with no observable effect.
Try to close the project and the IDE, open the project root directory in the OS file explorer, delete all.iml files and the .idea directory, and reimport the project from existing sources
You can try "open" button on the IDE welcome page, I made it.
As an daily IntelliJ user you usually concentrate on the projects you are working on and IntelliJ is just a tool. You are not willing to dig into tool's problem itself. But this is what is forced on you by default after IntelliJ installation on MacOS and opening relatively big project(most of the projects nowadays are huge and have thousands of files and use numbers of IntelliJ 3rd party plugins).
Here is a minimal list of actions. IntelliJ must have set MORE RAM to be used by default.
Read: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241085-Locating-IDE-log-files .
From IntelliJ open Help / Show log in Finder and open idea.log file with Console.app; In Console.app press "Reload" and "Now" buttons to track "live" what IntelliJ is doing.
If in logs of IntelliJ you find that some of the plugins exit with fatal error, you just uninstall those plugins. For me the one that failed to the moment of this answer was "BashSupport" as example.
Start Terminal.app ; Run command: open -a TextEdit /Applications/IntelliJ\ IDEA.app/Contents/bin/idea.vmoptions ; Change options in idea.vmoptions file to:
-Xms1024m
-Xmx2048m ; Read https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/tuning-the-ide.html to see how you can tune IntelliJ for your project. This step is handy when your IntelliJ app doesn't start at all and you want to change properties in a global way.
From IntelliJ open Help / Edit Custom Properties.... Here you can set same properties that will override global and will work only for current OS user.
Also there is also a possibility of underlying OS to do it voodoo magic so the IntelliJ won't work as it should like here - https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360000398280-IDEA-Ultimate-2018-2-Unable-to-save-settings-Unable-to-create-file-Windows-10
Make sure your project build output for *.class files is set. Read: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360000000584-Build-does-nothing . In my case when IntelliJ started project build it terminated without warnings shortly after.
Finally in my case none of 6 steps above solved the issue so I found this read: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000532044-IntelliJ-cannot-build-projects . Basically try reinstall IntelliJ from original distribution again.
I know that you must read https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea every time you install a new version of IntelliJ, but why not to add some consistency into configuration process of the main java process that runs IntelliJ itself? You can ask how much ram to use during installation of IntelliJ and explain why it is so. Then Help digging won't be necessary in the first place for devs who fed up with changing those default settings that will be always more than 700MB. I think for most devs out there it is at least 10x of that. I bet what makes most devs mad about this is not the fact that you need to do some options changing, but where those options are depending on OS plus the fact that you simply forget why IntelliJ app just exits while you are doing a debugging of your own app. I bet this problem makes us mad since first java based IDEs appeared. User-friendly is the key here and explicit reminders within the app itself would help.
I had a working sbt based project. After some small change that I can not specifically identify all the sbt files are having object resolution issues (see screenshots).
I tried the following:
sbt refresh
project rebuild
reimport project
These did not work.
Then I started going farther afield to resolve the issue. I copied the *.sbt files from another project on top of the ones in this project. Still no dice. Now I do not have time presently to actually completely destroy, rebuild the project from scratch - and in any case that does not lead to any insight on the root cause here.
Has anyone experienced this issue - and any suggestions on remedies/workarounds?
Update I finally tried
sbt gen-idea
even though this project was **not ** built that way.. It did make a difference: at least the crazy errors went away. But now a different set of problems arises: the assembly and packaging imports are not being resolved (see LAST screenshot). But this seems a bit more healthy at least .
Following screenshot is after running sbt gen-idea. Situation has improved but now get assembly/packaging import errors.
Another update
OK, I have quit and restarted IJ and things are finally back.
So the objective changes that I made:
sbt gen-idea
stop/restart IJ
This is feeling like magic incantations here .. Not a solid process.
A sort of a workaround could be to upgrade to the latest EAP of IntelliJ IDEA 13.1.3 build 135.909, released on May 23rd, 2014. It comes with more sophisticated Scala plugin that is much clever than the previous versions and hopefully could help here and there.
as already described in title, i'm not able to open the project structure dialog window in intellij anymore.
neither the shortcut (Ctrl+alt+shift+s) nor the menu element under File -> Project Structure nor the little button in the upper right corner do work.
Clarification: Menu element :
This "bug" occured suddenly as I wrote a web (vaadin/maven) project and tried to set up glassfish, where i often had to switch to the project structure dialog.
Since the first occurence i wasn't able to fix it by restarting intellij or switching projects.
This also happened on my laptop running the same intellij and windows version (Ultimate 13.0.1 Build: 133.331 on Windows 7 x64)
i appreciate any help!
This also happened to me, but removing new plugins etc didn't help.
Nor did nuking my project and rebuilding it from scratch.
In the end I deleted all caches, restarted Intellij and at last I could access the project settings again! By the way, I'm using Intellij 11.1 - mainly because I can't get 13 to start up, but that's another story
Your log shows that it is a bug in IntelliJ IDEA - they are trying to create file passing null pathname. Try to delete project files and reopen project from scratch (maybe you've lost some file) - if it won't help then you should create an issue here: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/ - You can even copy-paste text from your question and attach stacktrace
I had the same issue...upon further inspection in the log dump...I noticed the following:
ERROR - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - com.intellij.openapi.fileChooser.FileChooserDescriptor.setTitle(Ljava/lang/String;)V
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.intellij.openapi.fileChooser.FileChooserDescriptor.setTitle(Ljava/lang/String;)V
at com.jetbrains.python.sdk.PythonSdkType.getHomeChooserDescriptor(PythonSdkType.java:247)
Disabled the latest Python Plugin and restarted and everything is working normal again.
I remembered I had recently update my python plugin and am not using it presently so I was able to disable it without issue.
Hope this helps someone else.
This also happened to me. The comment above helped. I had just added some plugins. Disabled them and it started working again. Not sure exactly which one because I disabled all 4 -- Bean Validation Support, Bitbucket, Jelastic Cloud Platform Integration, and Quick Notes.
For me it has been resolved by switching off FindBugs plugin and restart IDEA. So Project Structure is available for me now.
One of the plugins might be causing it. To disable a plugin, go here:
You'll know for sure if a plugin is bad if you see this Exclamation picture:
Clicking on it will bring up a pop-up. To disable the plugin, click on this:
For me it got resolved just by restarting the intelliJ IDEA. I'm using intelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2018.1 edition.