Why Inspection Result is not saved to .idea/inspectionProfiles

Question

In https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/command-line-code-inspector.html#inspection-results, Code Inspection results should be stored in the project directory ".idea/inspectionProfiles", but I cannot find it in this folder, or I cannot find this folder.

Cause

Inspection Results and Inspection Profiles are two different things. Confusion may be caused by this document.

An inspection profile is an .xml file that specifies enabled inspections and their options. The xml file is for Inspection Profile use. The Inspection Profile details can be found in Settings | Editor | Inspections.

Solution

To export the Inspection results:

• Navigate to the Problems tool window
• Click the export button at the left-bottom corner of the inspection result:

• Select the format
• Then you will see a series of files in the target directory

For example, if xml format was selected, the result list will be like this: