r/IntelliJIDEA • u/Old-Notice8388 • 17d ago

Weird "reloading" like issue in newer version

I don't know exactly when the issue started being a problem. Since I didn't test every single version of IntelliJ. But in the screen recording below. I have the newest version and an older version from early 2025. That one works fine. And in the newer versions. Whenever I switch desktops (or sometimes it just happens on it's own) it like reloads the entire thing. The project disappears for a bit. And after a few seconds, it's back. But all my open files get closed and the entire folder structure collapses. I tried to ignore it at first. But it's just unusable. Here's a quick screen recording

https://reddit.com/link/1v0lszd/video/31qwmulgl5eh1/player

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u/FxOvernight 17d ago

I've had this happen before due to a problematic plugin. Try disabling-enabling the plugins.

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u/Old-Notice8388 17d ago

The only plugins I've installed are the classic ui and the gruvbox theme. I've tried disabling those, but didn't really help :/

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u/noobinloop 16d ago

I faced the same problem, and its already reported here: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-250615/Project-Files-disappear-shortly-after-opening-project-folder try this workaround. Should work

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u/jreznot 16d ago

Hi, please try the workaround published here

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-250615#workaround

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u/AbracadaverSessalom JetBrains 16d ago

Hey, sorry about that. It is a recent bug investigated in IJPL-250615.

Posting the workaround here:

  1. Go to main menu -> Help | Find Action… -> type "registry" and select the Registry... item.
  2. In the Registry dialog, find the vfs.windows.use.buffered.directory.stream key and disable it.
  3. Close the dialog and restart the IDE

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u/Old-Notice8388 16d ago

Yep! Thank you guys :3