Cannot uninstall IntelliJ IDEA as it thinks it is running
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When I attempt to uninstall IntelliJ IDEA, I receive the following error message:
C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2016.2.5\bin is running. Close the application and retry the installation.
IntelliJ is not open, nor are any other JetBrains applications. I checked the list of running processes, and I did not see any that would be related to IntelliJ.
When IntelliJ, it does not seem to be removing previously installed versions. I currently have the following list of versions installed, but I would only like to keep the latest. I receive a similar error message no matter which version I attempt to uninstall.
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2016.2.5 (162.2228.15)
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2016.3 (163.7743.44)
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2016.3.2 (163.10154.41)
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It looks like some IDEA files were locked in the same way if IDEA would be running. So may I ask you to restart your computer and try to uninstall again, please?
I'm seeing the same problem. Restarting the computer made no difference. The uninstaller is running in the same directory that it's complaining about (C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2017.1.2\bin) which seems suspicious.
Managed to get it to uninstall by going to C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2017.1.2\bin then right click the uninstaller and choose Run As Admin.
I can confirm that you must be running as admin. A restart didn't help for me (not for PyCharm, nor Webstorm). Running as admin did the trick.
As this is apparently not tracked by JetBrains at all when only reported through the Community Forums, I opened an issue in YouTrack over here: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-200483
I ran into this problem. But no java processes were running.
The issue was that I had an open terminal window in the directory it was trying to uninstall.
So all I had to do to resolve it was cd out of the directory.
I hit this issue when trying to uninstall an old version while installing an updated version. I restarted my computer and then realized that I had PHPstorm pinned to my taskbar. Removing that shortcut got rid of the noted error.