can not load setting issue even after deleting .idea
Team git clone the fresh project and every time its saying that issue with load setting two pop ups
Cannot load settings from file '/Users/A200506190/B2B-CA/abcd/.idea/vcs.xml': Unexpected End-of-input in prolog at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [2,1] File content will be recreated
and other pop up for misc.xml
I am using MAC operating system and all possible suggestion solution I've been tried. like deleting removing rm -rf .idea
but still when opening the project so I can see the pop with error and then
in the left hand side no maven tool is appearing.
I manually wen tto the view - tool but still no maven is showing there.
right clicking on pom is also not showing any maven option.
first time I am disappointed with Intellij idea not sure what is the issue but this is not related to project.
if this is the manven project then why its not fetching maven where as outside the project in terminal
i can run the maven command like mvn clean install etc.
Please assist . On priority
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Hi, Chandrahas Ibm. I'm sorry to hear you are having this problem. Could you please reproduce the issue and share logs via Help | Collect Logs and Diagnostic Data? You can upload logs securely at https://uploads.jetbrains.com/ and share the uploaded file ID in your reply.
I think I found the solution, from here :
Updating c:\Users\<user>\.m2\settings.xml , putting:
<localRepository>c:\home\jenkins\.m2</localRepository>
instead of “/home/jenkins/.m2” !
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Hello,
I have the same issue, after updating IntelliJ from 2023v to 2025.3.3 - 2025.3.5.
What I observed : IntelliJ is constantly generate files in <project>/.idea,
but these files are corrupted , ex for vcs.xml it contains only one line:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
So it generate a lot of errors, like:
Cannot load settings from file 'C:\Users\<username>\IdeaProjects\<projetName>\.idea\vcs.xml': Unexpected End-of-input in prolog at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [2,1] File content will be recreated
Cannot load settings from file 'C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\JetBrains\IntelliJIdea2025.3\projects\<projectName>_core.e34c1543\cache-state.xml': content truncated File content will be recreated
Even if I overwrite the vcs.xml with a valid file , in few minutes IntelliJ try to re-create the file and it writes only one line:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Infos:
- Windows 11 Entreprise
- Java 25
Thank you
Hi Sebastian Munteanu,
Thank you for your feedback.
The issue IDEA-377380 has been fixed, and the fix is already included in the latest 2026.1 EAP/Beta build. However, IDEA-377380 describes an issue that occurs when the
<localRepository>path is specified using a placeholder.In your case, the problem was caused by an incorrect path in
settings.xml. Before your changes, it was configured as a Linux-specific path, while you are using Windows, so a Windows-specific path needed to be configured instead.