2 generated plugin folders in different places
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I have IntelliJ installed on my D drive and I noticed that it generated plugin folders in 2 different places.
I have a plugins folder under
C:\Users\MyName\.IdeaIC2019.1\config\plugins
and
D:\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2018.2.4\plugins
The second one contains many more sub folders. The first one only a Kotlin folder. Why is the first one generated?
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Hi.
The first directory is a settings folder for 2019.1 Community edition.
Please check https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544519-Directories-used-by-the-IDE-to-store-settings-caches-plugins-and-logs
config\plugins is for the plug-ins you've installed manually, IDE_HOME\plugins is for the plug-ins bundled with the IDE.
Thanks. But why is there a Kotlin plugin in both then?
Kotlin plug-in is a special case. It's bundled with the IDE, but updates can be installed from the plugins repository so that you can get more recent Kotlin versions without waiting for the IDE update.
This means, when I update the Kotlin plugin from within the IDE it will generate the Kotlin folder in the settings folder?
The only way to avoid this is by waiting for a newer version of IntelliJ and not update the Kotlin plugin in-between?
Yes, that is correct. I don't see any problem with getting plug-in updates into a different location.
It's not really a problem but I wanted to know what is going on since my C drive is only 128GB. Thanks for your help!
You can relocate IDE plugins, caches and config folders to a different drive: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/articles/207240985.
Thank you!