Obsolete entries in workspace.xml

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John
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I am using 2024.1.3.

My workspace.xml for multiple projects contains the same obsolete entries.  Here is an example:

  <component name="GradleLocalSettings">
    <option name="modificationStamps">
      <map>
        <entry key="$JAVA_LIB_HOME$/jPOS-2_0_4" value="8671601004000" />

The problem this causes is the the path variable JAVA_LIB_HOME doesn't exist anymore.  (I don't need it.)  There are many other entries in this map and they are all very old (years.)

I traced this to a binary file under my user's AppData folder caches/content.dat but I don't know how to edit it.

What can I do to get rid of this cruft permanently?

 

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Jerome Guan
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Hi John, please check Settings | Build, Execution, Deployment | Build Tools | Gradle to see if you have any customized settings or not.
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John
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I don't know what the defaults are, but Gradle home is .gradle under my user folder (Windows).  The two boxes are unchecked.

thanks

 

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Jerome Guan
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Hi John, may I know will this entry be automatically added when you create a new java project or new gradle project in their workspace.xml? Or the entry only exists in some old projects which are created long time ago?
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John
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I don't know where the list comes from but the projects in it are 6-8 years old and don't even exist on my current workstation.  I create new projects all the time but they are not in the list.

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Jerome Guan
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Hi John, sorry to tell that this may be caused by some customized settings in old IntelliJ IDE versions. If you don't mind to rebuild the project indexing (./.idea folder and *.iml file), please try the following steps (make sure .idea and iml files are backed up before removing):
1. Close the IDE, go to the project directory, back up and delete the entire `.idea` folder and any `.iml` files from its root
2. In the IDE, go to File | New | Project from existing sources, select the project's source (root directory or main build file)
3. Wait for indexing to finish
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