IDEA stops working when saving settings in most projects
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Hello all,
Recently the IDEA started to crash (stops responding and showing ‘Saving PROJ_NAME settings’ and only killing the JVM process helps.
Some projects can work for some time and some crash as soon as opening the project. Removing ‘.idea’ directory in project folder does not help.
Does anyone experienced the same issue and how to solve it?
IDEA: IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2.3 (Ultimate Edition) (Build #IU-242.23339.11, built on September 25, 2024)
OS: "Fedora Linux" VERSION="40 (Workstation Edition)"
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Please try the workaround from https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-74471/UI-freeze-on-IDE-start-in-2023.2-PerModulePackageCacheService .
If the issue persists, contact support at https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/requests/new with the logs/thread dumps. See https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544899 and https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241085 .
Hello Serge,
Thank you for the workaround - it seems to solve the issue for now.
That workaround didn't work for me, it's crashing like crazy, whenever that “Saving “xxx” settings" appear, i have to force quit.
I'm on MacOs 15.5
Datagrip Build #DB-251.26094.87, built on May 27, 2025
It became totally unusable, im on the enterprise version
I occurs the same issue, and the workaroud doesn't work for me. I have to reinstall, cost times .
Hi, xw ,
Please also raise a support ticket here with your logs, which you can find in Help | Collect Logs and Diagnostic Data. Our team will investigate each case individually. Have a great one!
Hi Gabriel,
After reinstalling, the issue persisted.
However, I noticed that only one project displayed the "Saving… settings" message. So I decided to deleting the .idea folder and restarting，then resolved。
Just wanted to share this update with you. Thanks!