Intellij IDEA 13 - Can't open Project Structure dialog anymore

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as already described in title, i'm not able to open the project structure dialog window in intellij anymore.

neither the shortcut (Ctrl+alt+shift+s) nor the menu element under File -> Project Structure nor the little button in the upper right corner do work.

Clarification: Menu element :

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This "bug" occured suddenly as I wrote a web (vaadin/maven) project and tried to set up glassfish, where i often had to switch to the project structure dialog.

Since the first occurence i wasn't able to fix it by restarting intellij or switching projects.

This also happened on my laptop running the same intellij and windows version (Ultimate 13.0.1 Build: 133.331 on Windows 7 x64)

i appreciate any help!

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Have you tried right-click on your project in Project view (Alt+1) and then "Open module settings" (F4)? - Jakub Kubrynski
@JakubK yes just did that... it does not work aswell :( - ZioN
Do you found anything interesting in Idea log? - Jakub Kubrynski
good idea to look there @JakubK! I really found something concerning my problem: a full stacktrace is here - pastebin.com/iELvZLuM the lines 55 and 150: ERROR - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - Last Action: ShowProjectStructureSettings tell me it must have something to do with the opening of the dialog.. but i'm sorry, i cant interprete it by myself to find an answer :/ - ZioN

7 Answers

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This also happened to me, but removing new plugins etc didn't help.

Nor did nuking my project and rebuilding it from scratch.

In the end I deleted all caches, restarted Intellij and at last I could access the project settings again! By the way, I'm using Intellij 11.1 - mainly because I can't get 13 to start up, but that's another story

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Your log shows that it is a bug in IntelliJ IDEA - they are trying to create file passing null pathname. Try to delete project files and reopen project from scratch (maybe you've lost some file) - if it won't help then you should create an issue here: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/ - You can even copy-paste text from your question and attach stacktrace

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I had the same issue...upon further inspection in the log dump...I noticed the following:

ERROR - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - com.intellij.openapi.fileChooser.FileChooserDescriptor.setTitle(Ljava/lang/String;)V java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.intellij.openapi.fileChooser.FileChooserDescriptor.setTitle(Ljava/lang/String;)V at com.jetbrains.python.sdk.PythonSdkType.getHomeChooserDescriptor(PythonSdkType.java:247)

Disabled the latest Python Plugin and restarted and everything is working normal again.

I remembered I had recently update my python plugin and am not using it presently so I was able to disable it without issue.

Hope this helps someone else.

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This also happened to me. The comment above helped. I had just added some plugins. Disabled them and it started working again. Not sure exactly which one because I disabled all 4 -- Bean Validation Support, Bitbucket, Jelastic Cloud Platform Integration, and Quick Notes.

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For me it has been resolved by switching off FindBugs plugin and restart IDEA. So Project Structure is available for me now.

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One of the plugins might be causing it. To disable a plugin, go here: enter image description here

You'll know for sure if a plugin is bad if you see this Exclamation picture: enter image description here

Clicking on it will bring up a pop-up. To disable the plugin, click on this: enter image description here

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For me it got resolved just by restarting the intelliJ IDEA. I'm using intelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2018.1 edition.