Missing "Edit Custom Properties" and "Edit Custom VM Options" actions
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Hi everyone,
In the IntelliJ documentation here: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/tuning-intellij-idea.html and here: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/index-of-menu-items.html#edit_custom_properties, it talks about these two actions that let you customise the IDE settings without fiddling around with config files in the app bundle. These are exactly what I need but I can't find them in either IntelliJ itself (I looked back to v12) or in the community source code. Have these been removed, or is there something that I'm missing?
Cheers,
Colin
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This feature is available in IntelliJ IDEA 15.0.3.
Oh, perfect, thanks! I was still on 15.0.2. These are great, they'll be really useful.
I think the way this is used has changed in the most recent update.
I updated to 173.3727.127 and it didn't offer the popup to ignore/accept the updates to the properties/vm args and I lost my settings, creating a .IntelliJIdea2017.3 directory in my home directory rather than the C drive where I had stored them previously.
Moreover, when I manually edited the idea.properties in the installation directory/bin to point the variables to my new location, it still created the config dir. and property updates in the default location ($user/.IntelliJIdea2017.3)
You should never edit files in the bin directory, see https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/articles/207240985 for the correct approach.