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Ghilas BELHADJ
Ghilas BELHADJ

Reputation: 14096

Change PyCharm's settings directory

I'm on Ubuntu with the PyCharm Community Edition 2016.1.3, and I'de like to change its default locations for settings, caches, plugins and logs

Any environnement variable designed for this purpose ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1759

Answers (1)

Trimax
Trimax

Reputation: 2473

In the bin/ directory, there is the idea.properties file (text format):

#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Uncomment this option if you want to customize path to IDE config folder. Make sure you're using forward slashes.
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# idea.config.path=${user.home}/.PyCharm/config

#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Uncomment this option if you want to customize path to IDE system folder. Make sure you're using forward slashes.
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# idea.system.path=${user.home}/.PyCharm/system

#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Uncomment this option if you want to customize path to user installed plugins folder. Make sure you're using forward slashes.
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# idea.plugins.path=${idea.config.path}/plugins

#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Uncomment this option if you want to customize path to IDE logs folder. Make sure you're using forward slashes.
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# idea.log.path=${idea.system.path}/log

You must change the idea.config.path=${user.home}/.PyCharm/config line (and uncommet it) and write what you want.

The support is at: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2016.1/file-idea-properties.html All said .IntelliJIdea must be replaced by .PyCharm

Upvotes: 4

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