Was thinking of a project-by-project basis, eg working on a project, complete requirements, push everything to external git-repo, and think “I'm finished”. At which point, there is no need to retain the local project directory (easy solution, delete from FileManager-equivalent). However, this leaves an accumulation of ‘cruft’ in the PyCharm config files (per related question - the IDE's config, not project-config (as that was/could easily be deleted)).
NB my understanding of “default state” is that it will affect all projects - including the ones which are still ‘live’ on the local machine.
dn , you are right, using "Restore Default Settings" or removing the entire config directory will reset all IDE settings, including for active projects, so it's not suitable when you want to preserve live projects.
At the moment, PyCharm doesn't provide a built-in feature to selectively remove individual projects from both the configuration and the project directory. Please feel free to submit a feature request in this regard to our issue tracker using the link https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/PY
Hi dn, are you referring to cleaning up specific configurations, or are you looking to fully revert the IDE to its default state?
If you're aiming to reset everything to defaults, you can use File | Manage IDE Settings | Restore Default Settings. Alternatively, you can manually back up or rename the entire configuration directory while the IDE is closed.
Hi Mikhail, important clarification requested!
Was thinking of a project-by-project basis, eg working on a project, complete requirements, push everything to external git-repo, and think “I'm finished”.
At which point, there is no need to retain the local project directory (easy solution, delete from FileManager-equivalent).
However, this leaves an accumulation of ‘cruft’ in the PyCharm config files (per related question - the IDE's config, not project-config (as that was/could easily be deleted)).
NB my understanding of “default state” is that it will affect all projects - including the ones which are still ‘live’ on the local machine.
Thank you =dn
dn , you are right, using "Restore Default Settings" or removing the entire config directory will reset all IDE settings, including for active projects, so it's not suitable when you want to preserve live projects.
At the moment, PyCharm doesn't provide a built-in feature to selectively remove individual projects from both the configuration and the project directory. Please feel free to submit a feature request in this regard to our issue tracker using the link https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/PY
Thank you =dn