Running Webstorm.exe - Open a new instance instead of focusing the existing one.
Is it possible to have Webstorm bring up a fresh instance upon running its executable, rather than focusing the current one? Perhaps some commandline arg?
Thank you in advance.
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you can't run several WebStorm instances, as they can't access their caches concurrently... So, any attempt to run a new instance results in shutting the process down.
If you really need running 2 instances at the same time, you can install WebStorm to a different folder and specify a different configuration and caches directories for it (https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEABKL-5934#comment=27-182509).
Follow the instructions at: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207240985-Changing-IDE-default-directories-used-for-config-plugins-and-caches-storage
Main steps:
1. Install WebStorm to a different location.
2. Change idea.properties file for this installation (Help | Edit Custom Properties…). Remove comments for these properties:
idea.config.pathidea.system.pathidea.plugins.pathidea.log.pathAfter that you will be able to run two instances of WebStorm at the same time.