Is it safe to delete previous versions of IntelliJ?
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I am facing an issue of recovering free disk space in my main partition. I found these files in my Users folder. These folders named as previous versions of IntelliJ allocate 1.5GB in my disk space. Is it safe to delete these files?

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Forewent answered 5/5, 2020 at 18:15 Comment(0)
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Yes, it's safe to delete these directories if you no longer use the specified IDE versions.

Note that location of the IDE directories has changed since 2020.1 release.

Christen answered 5/5, 2020 at 18:19 Comment(0)
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Not sure when it was added, but Intellij now has a feature in the UI to delete old directories.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/directories-used-by-the-ide-to-store-settings-caches-plugins-and-logs.html#clean-up-old-ide-dirs

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Selry answered 11/4, 2022 at 14:17 Comment(2)
This is great. Also removed leftovers that I did not find myself. And you get to choose what to keep.Regional
Thank to Jetbranis for this awesome feature and you for this awesome answer.Burkes
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Yes, it's safe to delete these directories if you no longer use the specified IDE versions.

Note that location of the IDE directories has changed since 2020.1 release.

Christen answered 5/5, 2020 at 18:19 Comment(0)

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