Intellij IDEA: Breakpoint not being hit, and is shown greyed out

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Running JDK 1.7 on Mac OS X and suddenly breakpoints on my project are not working, and they are appearing greyed out. They were working earlier today, so not sure what I have done to cause this. I am using Intellij 13.1.3. Why would breakpoints stop working like this?

Grey, non-functioning breakpoint in Intellij 13

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Looks like it's disabled, right click on it and check - Marco Acierno
You can post that little edit as an answer, and chose it as the correct on, even if it's your own :) - Morfic
Thanks Morfic - posted as answer below :) - Mike Hogan
No problem, also if you want the users to get notified when you reply to them, put an @ in front of their name in the response, eg: Thanks @Morfic... - Morfic
Grey breakpoints aren't even mentioned here: jetbrains.com/idea/help/breakpoints-icons-and-statuses.html - Lambart

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Oh Gee - I just saw the "Mute Breakpoint" button in the debugger window. My mistake: picture below for the next person who might be as inattentive as me:

The mute breakpoint button

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Very easy to do with a touch bar and not realise. The icon on the touch bar is more obvious than the one in the debug panel.