IntelliJ IDEA JDK configuration on Mac OS

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I am using IntelliJ IDEA 10. Every time when I create a new project, it is asking me to choose JDK for this project. Anyone know how I can configure it and make it easy to use?

Macos Solutions

Solution 1 - Macos

If you are on Mac OS X or Ubuntu, the problem is caused by the symlinks to the JDK. File | Invalidate Caches should help. If it doesn't, specify the JDK path to the direct JDK Home folder, not a symlink.

Invalidate Caches menu item is available under IntelliJ IDEA File menu.

Direct JDK path after the recent Apple Java update is:

/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home

In IDEA you can configure the new JSDK in File | Project Structure, select SDKs on the left, then press [+] button, then specify the above JDK home path, you should get something like this:

JDK 1.6 on Mac

Solution 2 - Macos

Just tried this recently and when trying to select the JDK... /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ appears as empty when opening&selecting through IntelliJ. Therefore i couldn't select the JDK...

I've found that to workaround this, when the finder windows open (pressing [+] JDK) just use the shortcut Shift + CMD + G to specify the path. (/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk in my case)

And voila, IntelliJ can find everything from that point on.

Solution 3 - Macos

The JDK path might change when you update JAVA. For Mac you should go to the following path to check the JAVA version installed.

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/

Next, say JDK version that you find is jdk1.8.0_151.jdk, the path to home directory within it is the JDK home path.

In my case it was :

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_151.jdk/Contents/Home

You can configure it by going to File -> Project Structure -> SDKs.

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Solution 4 - Macos

Quite late to this party, today I had the same problem. The right answer on macOs I think is use jenv

brew install jenv openjdk@11
jenv add /usr/local/opt/openjdk@11

And then add into Intellij IDEA as new SDK the following path:

~/.jenv/versions/11/libexec/openjdk.jdk/Contents/Home/

Solution 5 - Macos

On Mac IntelliJ Idea 12 has it's preferences/keymaps placed here: ./Users/viliuskraujutis/Library/Preferences/IdeaIC12/keymaps/

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