After upgrading to Build #IC-171.4073.35, all tool windows disappeared
Hi all, new user here looking for information/support on a IntelliJ Community Edition problem.
So, this morning I was prompted for an available update. I upgraded to (copypasted from about):
IntelliJ IDEA 2017.1.1
Build #IC-171.4073.35, built on April 6, 2017
JRE: 1.8.0_112-release-736-b16 amd64
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
Windows Server 2008 R2 6.1
I am stuck to W2k8 for the moment because of slow company operations, but it worked just fine with the previous Intellij, so that's not the thing.
Problem is that my IntelliJ window is now entirely grey, except for the button lint, the menu bar and the project breadcrumb, and the status bar at the bottom. But all tool windows are gone. No project, no run/debug, no opened class, no outline, no git, nothing. Alt 1-9 doesn't do anything, clicking View -> Tool Windows -> <anything> doesn't do anything either. I restarted IntelliJ, I restarted the entire box, but to no avail.
IntelliJ is still aware of my project, I can (quick)find and open files, I can build, I can close/open projects, all good.
I can't find anything on this problem when I search, only lots of topics on how to hide/rearrange etc. tool windows.
Any ideas?
In the mean time I am going to try a reinstall.
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Reinstall from http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/index.html, delete system and plugins folders (https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/articles/206544519).
I thought of something to trial-and-error, and it turns out it works. So I'll leave this in here for posterity. What I did:
1) Exit IntelliJ
2) Remove/rename settings dir (in my case c:\Users\<username>\.IdeaIC2017.1 )
3) Restart IntelliJ, when it asks whether to start fresh or import settings, choose an earlier version
Of course for this one would need settings dirs from earlier versions lying around. Luckily I had some.
So: works for me :)