IntelliJ idea stucked on "loading project" screen

Question

This is a Monday morning nightmare on top of existing bugs I have!!

I have couple of projects which i open simultaneously using intellj. One of the project was not showing all directory structures inside it so i took some advice and deleted the .idea folder. Now all hell broke loose on me.

I am stucked here from the dawn of mankind now

Intellij logs

2017-12-04 09:46:59,444 [   9036]   INFO -                git4idea.GitVcs - Git version: 2.14.3.0 
2017-12-04 09:46:59,533 [   9125]   INFO - pl.projectlevelman.NewMappings - VCS Root: [Git] - [/codebase/plutus] 
2017-12-04 09:47:01,309 [  10901]   INFO - tor.impl.FileEditorManagerImpl - Project opening took 6353 ms 
2017-12-04 09:47:02,913 [  12505]   INFO - .diagnostic.PerformanceWatcher - Indexable file iteration took 4772ms; general responsiveness: ok; EDT responsiveness: 2/5 sluggish, 1/5 very slow 
2017-12-04 09:47:05,252 [  14844]   INFO - ellij.project.impl.ProjectImpl - 18 project components initialized in 52 ms 

# ----- ^^ all good till here, below is when i start open new project


2017-12-04 09:47:26,455 [  36047]   INFO - og4jmonitor.Log4JWindowManager - creating new LoggingReceiver on port:=4454 
2017-12-04 09:47:26,496 [  36088]   INFO - ellij.project.impl.ProjectImpl - 153 project components initialized in 165 ms 
2017-12-04 09:47:26,497 [  36089]   INFO - le.impl.ModuleManagerComponent - 0 module(s) loaded in 0 ms 
2017-12-04 09:47:26,645 [  36237]   INFO - CompilerBackwardReferenceIndex - backward reference index version differ due to: class java.io.FileNotFoundException

Two errors i see on my screen are :

Intellij version

Any help would draw your chances of not having monday morning blues and nightmare like me! :)
Thank you!

its a quick hack but would bite-back in overall development! — NoobEditor, Dec 04 '17 at 06:55
mmm....is that a sarcasm or am i not understanding something? how to fix? :) — NoobEditor, Dec 04 '17 at 07:03

NoobEditor · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-23T05:29:45.883

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[from comments]
Warning: While it works, if you invalidate the cache, it destroys all histories of all projects

So apparently, solution was simple but difficult to find.Here is how it worked :

close all projects in intellij, don't close IDE, just all projects.
delete the .idea/ folder from the project which was getting stucked.
open the same project in intellij
do File -> invalidate caches and restart
done

edited Apr 23 '21 at 05:29

answered Dec 06 '17 at 04:21

NoobEditor

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Warning: While it works, if you invalidate the cache, it destroys all histories of all projects. – magallanes Aug 20 '18 at 20:47
its a known hazard! :) – NoobEditor Aug 21 '18 at 04:03
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Closing all open projects worked for me! Then I was able to load components for the newly created project. – Notoc Mar 11 '20 at 13:04

score 11 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 27 '19 at 13:01

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Delete the .idea folder from project worked for me.

edited Mar 27 '19 at 13:01

double-beep

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answered Mar 27 '19 at 12:27

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Helped too but have to make all settings again. – siOnzee Oct 01 '19 at 12:09

score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 12 '18 at 05:25

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I think it's because of Log4JPlugin see - problem here also
in my case : delete this(Log4JPlugin) plugin and restart it -> it's worked for me

edited Nov 12 '18 at 05:25

NoobEditor

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answered Nov 09 '18 at 18:06

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I had a similar issue, but with the ANTLR plugin. Upvoting this because a bad plugin can cause a hang. Disabling it fixed the issue for me – Sean Nov 21 '22 at 16:04

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 14 '20 at 16:04

I had red icon in the corner. Clicking it showed information of some problem with Makefile support. I disable the plugin and all opened as usual.

==> Glady I didn't delete the .idea folder as suggested (I just renamed it, and renamted back after solving the problem). Delete it will also cause losing deployment server info and probably more other important date.

aimhaj · Answer 5 · 2022-02-25T08:23:47.957

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I resolved the issue by deleting only the file workspace.xml located under .idea folder.
This is useful whenever you need to keep configs of your plugins for that project.

edited Feb 25 '22 at 08:23

answered Feb 21 '22 at 17:14

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OldCurmudgeon · Answer 6 · 2018-11-23T14:26:08.853

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For me it was a partly-completed Resolve Conflicts.

Complete the conflict resolution using a different tool before opening the project again.

edited Nov 23 '18 at 14:26

answered Nov 23 '18 at 12:50

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 06 '20 at 13:39

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Close all opened projects to startup PhpStorm window
Open folder/project that you need
Profit

answered Apr 06 '20 at 13:39

bdn

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What's `PhpStorm` doing here? – Dut A. Aug 12 '21 at 21:12
IntelliJ idea and PhpStorm in general have the same code, so some problems like described, fixed in the same way. I had an issue with PhpStorm, so I described it here. I'm sure that this solution will help. – bdn Aug 13 '21 at 10:15

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 01 '20 at 20:04

Mine had the biggest stack trace I have ever seen in the logs: 1025 lines.

The skinny was I had just done some Maven Archetype work and enabled the plugin. When I found this stack trace, I disabled it and it worked fine.

   Conflicting component name 'Archetypes.Configuration': class org.google.code.archetypes.ArchetypesConfiguration and class org.google.code.archetypes.ArchetypesConfiguration

score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Oct 13 '20 at 20:44

I had set the runtime version to java 8 instead of java 11 using the choose runtime plugin (for version 2020.2). Reverted it back to 11, invalidated caches and restarted, and the problem went away. (When I had this problem, wasn't able to open action pop up, so assigned a shortcut to choose runtime from preferences.)

score 1 · Answer 10 · edited Feb 10 '21 at 07:10

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For me, I used guidance from JetBrains.

Remove the configuration folder.
macOS:
Configuration (idea.config.path): ~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2020.3
Plugins (idea.plugins.path): ~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2020.3/plugins

edited Feb 10 '21 at 07:10

סטנלי גרונן

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score 1 · Answer 11 · edited Sep 12 '21 at 01:54

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IntelliJ keeps its data in the .idea folder. Deleting .idea folder from the project repo and re-opening the project should fix this issue (worked for me).

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Thomas

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score 1 · Answer 12 · answered Mar 29 '23 at 09:32

I am working with the IntelliJ IDEA 2022.3.3 (Community Edition). The project was stack at the loading screen. Cancelling the event would freeze the whole IntelliJ.

The solution that worked for me was to delete the .iml and .ipr files. After that the project loaded as expected.

score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Jun 02 '20 at 06:10

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When the "loading..." appears. Try to save a file. That seems to trigger a event to the file-system, and the directory is loaded.

answered Jun 02 '20 at 06:10

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score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Sep 16 '22 at 07:42

disabling Eclipse PDE Partial plugin solved for me on an OSGi project. I encountered this issue on IntelliJ Idea 2022.2.2 Build #IC-222.4167.29 Community Edition.

Of course I had to delete the .idea directory and reimport the project as specified here.

IntelliJ idea stucked on "loading project" screen

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