Reload from disk doesn't work with large projects in PyCharm
I'm on Ubuntu, using PyCharm, and “reload from disk” doesn't do anything. The only thing that actually works is restarting the IDE. Otherwise, you can wait 5 minutes for the IDE to recognise file changes. This seems to starts happening once you have a decent sized code base. If you have a handful of files in your project th IDE is responsive. This makes refactoring a nightmare. This makes working with realistically sized projects a nightmare. The only way to refactor is just move and rename things by hand in the terminal, and then do find+replace in the IDE to fix import errors.
Flows that are a nightmare:
- Adding a directory/file
- Moving a directory/file
- Renaming a directory/file
Plugins turned on:
- Git
- Copilot
Versions:
-2024.Y
How long has thing been a problem:
- I've experienced this all through 2024 to presently March 2025. It could also have been a problem in 2023, and I just don't remember.
- I've seen this issue dating back to 2011 as a problem
Questions for dev team:
- Is this due to internal struggles at a management level to address user feedback?
- Is there a desire and motivation to improve the user experience?
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Hello, Albert ,
The issue indeed requires investigation. Please create YouTrack ticket and attach the logs archive, which can be found under Help | Collect Logs and Diagnostic Data.
Hi Dinara Tsydenova When I click on “Help | Collect Logs and Diagnostic Data” my mouse and IDE freezes.
Hi, Albert,
In this case, could you please manually create an archive of the logs directory and attach it to the created YouTrack ticket?
Hi, I have the exact same problem that wasn't happening before. However I just managed to isolate the cause of the issue on my side, this may give you hints to resolve the problem.
The issue showed up on a project where I use a jupyter notebook server running under docker compose. I also bind the container's python interpreter to the IDE.
When I do that, Pycharm download a file named “243_24978_54-pycharm-support-libs.zip”, it wasn't doing that before, I don't really know what it is used for. Removing this file manually completely resolve the problem.
However, while the file is downloaded again automatically, the problem only shows up again after some time. But removing this file definitely resolve the problem until the next occurrence.
I guess the issue doesn't come from this specific file but rather from heavy files maybe ? The file is 63mb.