How to properly update to 4.5 (Retaining Plugin settings)
Hello,
I was wondering how to perform a proper update from 4.0.3 to 4.5 when it is available. For example, I have configured the inspection gadgets plugin to my needs and I don't want to lose all these custom settings.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Best,
Peter
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Peter Mitchub wrote:
Generally this should update with no problem. Still you can backup the configuration file located at the following path:
%HOME%/.IntelliJIDEA/config/options/editor.codeinsight.xml
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>Generally this should update with no problem. Still you can backup the configuration file located at the following path:
Thanks for your reply. I was wondering if I can just create a backup of the whole .IntelliJIDEA/config folder and just write it over the one generated during 4.5 install.
Thank you again.
Peter
Peter Mitchub wrote:
>>Generally this should update with no problem. Still you can backup the configuration file located at the following path:
>>%HOME%/.IntelliJIDEA/config/options/editor.codeinsight.xml
Of course you can.
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Maxim,
Not possible to do this kind of stuff easily under OS X. Any chance the location of the plugins can be moved to outside the App Package to ~/Library/Preferences/IDEA/PlugIns?
Thanks
R
Robert S. Sfeir wrote:
At least you can easily configure this through Info.plist. Just add the following:
idea.plugins.path any_dir_you_want_here]]>
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Cool thanks, but that should really be the default. I know a lot of OS X users were complaining about that. Thanks for the pointer.
R
Robert S. Sfeir wrote:
I do not think this is right for EAP users as well for those who will upgrade from 4.0 since many plugins were broken
and IDEA just can refuse to startup after installation and this will not be a good show for those who upgrade. Though it
seems we've finally implemented a plugin versioning scheme that will help to avoid such a problems.
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So you think there should be a default which goes into the ~/Library/Preferences/IntelliJ IDEA/Plugins dir, or not?
R
Robert S. Sfeir wrote:
Doesn't seem like a Preference IMO. Is there a standard place for application plugins designed?
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Yes.
~/Library/Application Support/IntelliJ IDEA - for single user
R
Robert S. Sfeir wrote:
Done in 2170
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Excellent thanks, will make our lives of updating idea much easier.
R
Robert S. Sfeir wrote:
That wasn't a good idea actually. At least we should discover a way to install default plugins (like CVS, Tomcat etc.).
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Well then you'd need an installer now, which is what most software with special needs have. Nothing wrong with that, I think it's a good compromise if we can avoid the shuffle and re download of our plugins every time, and the viewing of the contents of the package in order to add plugins which are not available via download manager, like Clover and others.
R
Why don't you have them installed in the same place you do today (install/plugins) and have IDEA recognize both places for plugins? This way you have the "official" plugins, shipped with IDEA, and the user installed plugins, kept in a custom place.
One thing I always have to take care of when upgrading (and copy the plugins over between installation directories) is to select only the plugins IDEA does not ship with, knowing that those have a "special" status and I'm not supposed to mess with them. And I guess that's the reason IDEA wipes out the plugins directory when installing, so it can put "up to date" versions in place.
So, if you treat them differently, keep them separate.
Just my 2c,
Andrei
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M> That wasn't a good idea actually. At least we should discover a way
M> to install default plugins (like CVS, Tomcat etc.).
M>
Andrei Oprea wrote:
You're just reading my mind. Finished implementing it 15 mins before I read your post.
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There's a SCR open about this. Good time to take the chance to implement it.
M> You're just reading my mind. Finished implementing it 15 mins before
M> I read your post.
M>
That's neat. :)
Andrei
perfect. this would work very nicely indeed. No loss of plugins = happy Mac people :)
On 07-07-2004 18:27, Maxim Shafirov (JetBrains) wrote:
>> Why don't you have them installed in the same place you do today
>> (install/plugins) and have IDEA recognize both places for plugins?
>> This way you have the "official" plugins, shipped with IDEA, and
>> the user installed plugins, kept in a custom place.
Does this mean scr #32872 is fixed?
http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=32872
Bas
Robert S. Sfeir wrote:
Not only Mac users actually.
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Bas Leijdekkers wrote:
>> Andrei Oprea wrote:
>>
>>> Why don't you have them installed in the same place you do today
>>> (install/plugins) and have IDEA recognize both places for plugins?
>>> This way you have the "official" plugins, shipped with IDEA, and
>>> the user installed plugins, kept in a custom place.
>>
>>
>> You're just reading my mind. Finished implementing it 15 mins before
>> I read your post.
Absolutely true. Default plugins will be loaded from %IDEA_INSTALLATION%/plugins and those dowloaded by the user from
%IDEA_CONFIG_PATH%/plugins on Linux and Windows and from ~/Library/Application Support/IntelliJ IDEA on Mac.
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M> Not only Mac users actually.
M>
Exactly! :)
Andrei
Was just talking about this idea on here the other day. Nice one!
N.
Andrei Oprea wrote:
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 22:37:47 +0400, Maxim Shafirov (JetBrains) wrote:
It didn't need 'fixing' on Linux - we've always had symlinks to fool
applications ;)
Please don't remove IDEA_PLUGINS_PATH!
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On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 21:07:37 +0100, Mark Scott wrote:
>> Absolutely true. Default plugins will be loaded from
>> %IDEA_INSTALLATION%/plugins and those dowloaded by the user from
>> %IDEA_CONFIG_PATH%/plugins on Linux and Windows and from
>> ~/Library/Application Support/IntelliJ IDEA on Mac.
Great - IDEA still uses IDEA_PLUGINS_PATH in build 2174 (which includes
the change to how plugins are found, according to the list of bugs fixed
in that build).
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Thank you very much! This has been my biggest hassle with Idea (this also shows how little trouble I've been having in general... :-).
Another happy Mac user.