Using IntelliJ portably in a hard disk constrained environment
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I'm doing a Java class at school, and I want to use IntelliJ instead of the school-provided Eclipse. Because I don't have the permissions to install anything, I put IntelliJ on a USB stick and set the user home directory to be on the stick. Unfortunately, having the IDE constantly read off the flash drive made it unacceptably slow, so I moved the user home to my personal, school-provided network drive. However, that drive is only 300 MB in size, and just creating a default project puts the network drive dangerously close to capacity. Is there a way I can save some hard disk space and make IntelliJ usable?
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-Didea.jars.nocopy=true JVM option can save some space in the system folder by not copying the jar files there, but the original jars will be locked on Windows and you will not be able to replace them when IDE is running.
Thanks for your help, not copying the jars saved enough space to get IntelliJ to work. However, I'm now trying to use gradle and LWJGL and I'm running into the same problem. I've tried putting my gradle distribution on the USB drive, but I get a "the device is not ready" error on project refresh.