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Carlos Chacin โ˜•๐Ÿ‘ฝ
Carlos Chacin โ˜•๐Ÿ‘ฝ

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๐Ÿ”Œ Restore IntelliJ Idea settings โ›ฝ

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๐Ÿ”Œ Restore IntelliJ Idea settings โ›ฝ

After a long day trying to figure out how to reset all my IntelliJ settings, I decided to write this to document the obvious solution that was not that obvious to me.

I was using the ๐Ÿ”ฅ JetBrains Toolbox App ๐Ÿ”ฅ for a while to manage my IntelliJ Idea Ultimate installation along with other tools like Rider, WebStorm, and the Early Access Preview for IntelliJ Community Edition.

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After several installations and reinstallations of IDEs and different Java/JDK versions (8, 9, 11, 14), the IDE was not able to import my maven projects. The IntelliJ IDEA was acting as a simple text editor at this time ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ.

๐Ÿ’€ Failed attempt to solve it ๐Ÿ”‡

1) Uninstall IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate using the Toolbox App
2) Uninstall the Toolbox App
3) Delete the following directories:



$ rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/JetBrains/


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$ rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2020.1


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4) Reinstall IntelliJ IDEA without using Toolbox



$ brew cask install intellij

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๐Ÿ’Š The obvious and simple solution ๐Ÿ

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Go to:

Configure -> Restore Default Settings -> Restore and Restart

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Luciano Lima โ€ข

Thanks for bringing it up Carlos. Was having trouble finding it with a project already open.

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