Migrating from Community Edition to Ultimate
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After installing, I did not notice any option to import settings, and the Ultimate IDE behaved as if it were a fresh install.
As a result, I still haven't uninstalled the Community Edition version, since I am holding on to it until i can fully migrate the user settings.
I tried the settings import as described here but it did not keep all the settings, for example, it showed the Old UI even though the settings file clearly was generated with New UI.
How can I make sure all my settings, plugins and such carry over?
Is there an option to do this automatically, or am I expected to just redo all my configs manually?
Thanks
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You can copy IDE config and plugin folders from CE to Ultimate. See https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544519. Make sure both versions are not running when you do it.
Another option is to use File | Manage IDE Settings | Export/Import Settings.
The link you sent does not work.
Also, I used the Import / Export settings but I am not sure that did anything, as it defaulted to the old UI even though I imported settings with the new UI set
Link corrected by removing the dot. Sorry about that.
The link works now, thank you.
When migrating settings, is it normal to not also have the plugins automatically installed?
There is some weird behaviour: it shows updates available for 2 plugins from my old config, RainbowCSV and Github Copilot, even though those plugins don't show up as installed in the new IDE.
Is this some sort of mismatch between the configs, or are they not supposed to automatically install plugins for you?
Thank you
The exported settings.zip file contains the installed.txt file with the list of the installed plug-ins. When you import the settings in another IDE instance, it should suggest installing/updating these plug-ins.
Unfortunately I was not prompted to do anything about it, maybe I should submit an issue?
It looks like we already have a couple of the related issues reported:
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-210376/Export-settings-option-stopped-to-export-plugins-list-regression
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-248545/Import-Settings-it-would-be-nice-if-imported-plugins-are-merged-with-installed-ones-on-importing
I would copy the plugins folder from one instance to another, it should help with the plugin migration until these issues are resolved.