Appcode launch fails with "Config and system paths seem to be equal"

Question

I just re-started AppCode and there is apparently a configuration problem:

I went to the /Applications/AppCode.app/Contents/bin' directory and neitheridea.config.pathoridea.system.path` exist in any of those files. In fact none of the files have been modified from their original installation values.

Is there any way to avoid re-installing? I would likely lose my run configurations and projects info. Also then the root cause would remain a mystery and might re-surface.

Update this also happens for Intellij.

Answer 1

I found an idea.properties under ~/Library/Preferences/AppCode2019.3 that did have those values. I removed them from that file and AppCode now launches correctly.

I suspect this happened in relation to importing settings from an intellij project.