Directories used by the IDE to store settings, caches, plugins and logs

Location of the IDE files depends on the operating system, product and version.

• 2020.1 and above versions
• 2019.3.x and below versions

Examples

Examples for IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2:

Windows:

• Configuration (idea.config.path): %APPDATA%\JetBrains\IntelliJIdea2022.2
• Plugins (idea.plugins.path): %APPDATA%\JetBrains\IntelliJIdea2022.2\plugins
• System (idea.system.path): %LOCALAPPDATA%\JetBrains\IntelliJIdea2022.2
• Logs (idea.log.path): %LOCALAPPDATA%\JetBrains\IntelliJIdea2022.2\log

macOS:

• Configuration (idea.config.path): ~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2022.2
• Plugins (idea.plugins.path): ~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2022.2/plugins
• System (idea.system.path): ~/Library/Caches/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2022.2
• Logs (idea.log.path): ~/Library/Logs/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2022.2

Linux:

• Configuration (idea.config.path): ~/.config/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2022.2
• Plugins (idea.plugins.path): ~/.local/share/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2022.2
• System (idea.system.path): ~/.cache/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2022.2
• Logs (idea.log.path): ~/.cache/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2022.2/log

Should you need to change the defaults, refer to this document.

<product> would be one of the following:

• IntelliJIdea (IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition)
• IdeaIC (IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition)
• RubyMine
• WebIde (PhpStorm versions before 2016.1 and WebStorm before 7.0 use this common directory)
• PhpStorm (PhpStorm starting from 2016.1 version)
• WebStorm (WebStorm starting from 7.0 version)
• PyCharm (PyCharm Professional)
• PyCharmCE (PyCharm Community)
• AppCode
• CLion
• DataGrip
• Rider

Android Studio folder locations can be found in this document.