Directories used by the IDE to store settings, caches, plugins and logs Follow

It looks like you are affected by this bug: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-217511.

This document is outdated, settings for 2020.1 are now inside ~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/<productName><productVersion>

Hi my intelij idea is not working I have a valid JDK and JRE installed and have a java_home variable the system variables and when I try open idea it says Failed to load jvm if you have a java installation please  define a JAVA_HOME variable. Pls help

Remarkable.  A document titled "Directories used by ...."  that fails to list any directory locations.

Adam Pycharm

I've updated the document with the examples. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for the feedback.

Where do pycharm and IDEA store the configuration for the currently used theme? I found a file color.scheme.xml in ~/.config/JetBrains/.../, but changing it seems to have no effect.

(I want to change the theme externally with a script to sync it with the system color scheme on Linux).

Lorenz Hoffmann Make sure IDE is not running when you change this file.

I want import or restore localhistory(VCS) files from phpstorm 2017.2 to phpstorm 2019.2

I have "changes.storageData" file from old phpstorm, last time I changed all directory of this contents of file from H:/ to C:/ after reinstalling phpstorm 2017.2, and now after removing old Windows and install new Windows 8.1 , I istalled phpstorm 2019.2 and In addition to doing the previous thing I said(change contents from H:/ to C:/) , changed directory name of phpstorm2017.2 to phpstorm2019.2 and replace the file, but doesnt work and I cant see history of changes in VCS->LocalHistory

How can I restore LocalHistory data from phpstorm2017.2 to phpstorm2019.2?

(I cant install newer version of PhpStorm now)

Hrx2019

Unfortunately, currently it is not possible to move history between major versions. 

Please vote for https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-61385

For me as a Windows user this articles mentions the four directories Configuration, Plugins, System and Logs.  On the other hand I have another 16 files and folder with about 450MB I need to get moved for saving space at the location (which was the reson I was linked to this article)

I don't understand why there isn't wider adoption of using the environment variables unless it is that people simply don't know about them. If you are using "~/" for the user folder on *nix, why don't you use "%USERPROFILE%" to stand in for "C:\Users\<usermame>"

Take it one step further and user %APPDATA% for roaming and %LOCALAPPDATA% for local

can use these in CMD, run, start menu, explorer address bar etc

Intellij version: IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1.1 (Ultimate Edition)

Java version: openjdk version "11.0.2"

ZScaler version: 3.2.0.62

macOS: Catalina 10.15.7

I had the same issue when hitting an API endpoint in my SpringBoot application which in turn was making an external call to a secure https api.

This is what I did to fix it:

1. Locate my JRE: (NOTE: Make sure this is the same java that your IDE uses to run the application)

which java   
/Users/afsharh/.sdkman/candidates/java/11.0.2-open/bin/java

2. cd into the java certs:

cd /Users/afsharh/.sdkman/candidates/java/11.0.2-open/lib/security

3. add my Z Scaler root certificate to `cacerts` which is located in the directory in point 2 (in my case I have stored my zscaler root certificate in ~/Desktop. Do not forget to change that to point to the right location. Look at point 4, if you are not sure how to get the ZScaler root certificate.

keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias mdecert -file ~/Desktop/Zscaler\ Root\ CA.cer -keystore cacerts

4. Go to the mac key store -> search for zscaler -> file -> export

I use Mac and I could not change the directory when I tried to copy the path as 

/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2022.2

Therefore firstly I went to Library directory and then wrote 

cd "Application Support"

command with double quotes. It worked!