Local History missing

For some reason no Local History is being saved for any of my files. When I right-click on an item and select Local History, the list is empty. Is anyone else seeing this? Thanks.

IU-99.32


Rick

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Hello Rick,

We've received a number of reports for this problem, but unfortunately we
haven't been able to track down why it happens. A known workaround is File
| Invalidate Caches.

For some reason no Local History is being saved for any of my files.
When I right-click on an item and select Local History, the list is
empty. Is anyone else seeing this? Thanks.


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Dmitry Jemerov
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JetBrains, Inc.
http://www.jetbrains.com/
"Develop with Pleasure!"


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That seemed to help. I appreciate it.

Rick

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Dmitry:

While invalidating the caches worked for me. It seems to be only a temporary fix. It seems that in time the index gets corrupted again. Is there any other work around for this? Thanks!

Rick

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Hi -

Yesterday IDEA spontaneously announced (on the status line, I think) that the caches had become corrupt and were being rebuilt.  Today I find that I have no local history.  I had a large amount of local history on a large number of files and it was important to me.  I had hoped that your workaround would recover the history, but the dialog which appears if I choose File/Invalidate Caches says that local history will be cleared, so I haven't gone down that route.

I'm a little confused - will "invalidate caches" recover the local history or wipe it?  In what sense is it a workaround to the problem?

On previous versions, I don't believe "invalidate caches" wiped the local history did it?

Thanks.

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Hello Pete,

"Invalidate caches" wipes the existing corrupted local history and allows
new local history entries to be recorded.

Yesterday IDEA spontaneously announced (on the status line, I think)
that the caches had become corrupt and were being rebuilt.  Today I
find that I have no local history.  I had a large amount of local
history on a large number of files and it was important to me.  I had
hoped that your workaround would recover the history, but the dialog
which appears if I choose File/Invalidate Caches says that local
history will be cleared, so I haven't gone down that route.

I'm a little confused - will "invalidate caches" recover the local
history or wipe it?  In what sense is it a workaround to the problem?

On previous versions, I don't believe "invalidate caches" wiped the
local history did it?


--
Dmitry Jemerov
Development Lead
JetBrains, Inc.
http://www.jetbrains.com/
"Develop with Pleasure!"


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Hello, 'File | Invalidate Caches' doesn't work for me, even if I restart.  I'm not sure when's the last time I saw it working, but it definitely was not working for me in 11.1.1 and so I updated to EAP 11.1.3 to see if it was fixed for my case, but it wasn't, and then an error popped up in that version:

InvalidVirtualFileAccessException: Accessing invalid virtual file: file:////<my home directory>/.IntelliJIdea11/config/port: Accessing invalid virtual file: file:////<my home directory>/.IntelliJIdea11/config/port


Would anyone happen to know if this is relevant to Local History always being empty for me or not?  and, if yes, what could I do about it? (i.e. before waiting for a JetBrains fix - I submitted the error report)  Thanks!

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