CODEWITHSUNDEEP
androidintellij-idea
John
John

Reputation: 335

IntelliJ IDEA takes too long to show files in the "file/folder selector" dialog

Update (24/01/16):

I'm not sure why, but it doesn't happen anymore, I forgot what I've changed the last time I was using this PC, I remember disabling Google Drive from opening at startup, but not sure that's the reason, the moment I'll figure it out I'll post an update here.

Also, since I found no other people having this problem on the Internet, I guess it's a good idea to post solutions in case someone had this problem and solved it for the next user who'll face this problem.

Problem description:

Whenever I get to the dialog where I open a file or directory (Like "File>Open..." or "import settings") it takes about 50 seconds to show the file tree. There's nothing shown except "Loading..." and "Nothing to show".

Also, clicking the "X" button or the "Cancel" button does not respond until it finishes with the process of showing the file tree. The same can be said about dragging a file/folder, it just won't respond until it finishes the slow initialization.

The dialog window itself is responsive all the time, it's not frozen.

Seems like it takes a long time to initialize, and after that it works perfectly (Until the next time I get to this dialog).

Technical details:

Things I've tried:

Upvotes: 9

Views: 5759

Answers (4)

Patrick E.
Patrick E.

Reputation: 141

Had the same issue (caused by a disconnected network drive) and resolved it using a custom property which you can set inside the IDE.

Taken from this issue: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-338/Redesign-file-chooser-dialog

  • Go to Help > Edit Custom Properties...
  • Append ide.ui.new.file.chooser=true
  • Restart the IDE

This replaces the tree view with a folder view, where the IDE does not need to load all drives and folders beforehand, thus eliminating the long loading time.

Works in PhpStorm and IntelliJ (and I guess in every other JetBrains IDE as well).

Upvotes: 9

fxtentacle
fxtentacle

Reputation: 813

I know this is not a proper fix, but you can just drag folders onto the IntelliJ desktop icon and it'll open them instantly.

Upvotes: 1

Mihai Cazac
Mihai Cazac

Reputation: 177

Same for me, but I found the culprit in my case. I have some network drives mapped with drive letters assigned to them, and if those network drives are disconnected but Windows 10 does not notice this and shows them as being connected the "Select path" dialog takes a long time to show the file tree. So the solution is to set those de facto disconnected network drives to appear "disconnected" in Windows Explorer. To be more specific, in my case those network drives are mapped in a virtual machine running under VirtualBox; quitting the virtual machine did not make them disconnected for the W10 host.

Upvotes: 12

Tano
Tano

Reputation: 619

  • Disable all the plugins that you are not using
  • Go to Android Studio folder in the bin folder there is a file named studio64.vmoptions open it and make this change: -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m at least (if it is 350m), -Xms128m and -Xmx2048m

I hope this will help you :/

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions