RE: [Eap-list] Two Instances of IDEA

[Tim Whittington]

The same kind of thing happens if IDEA is killed. All the IDE settings get reset, and you have to set everything up again. This is becoming a major annoyance (albeit the only one). Perhaps you could whip up some file locking protocol to keep the IDE settings securely saved to their respective files.   thanks   tim -----Original Message----- From: Tim Whittington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2002 12:23 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [Eap-list] Two Instances of IDEA I've also had the same problems. Even worse IDEA sometimes trashes all your IDE settings.     tim -----Original Message----- From: John Pickler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2002 09:56 To: List, IntelliJ EAP Subject: [Eap-list] Two Instances of IDEA Build# 606, Win 2000, JDK 1.3.1_02   I've had multiple exceptions (in current and prior 60x builds) related to running multiple instances of IDEA at the same time, which didn't seem to happen in 2.5.1 and before.... 1) The second instance of IDEA will indicate that all VCS operations are disabled (this is expected) 2) If one instance of IDEA tries to save one of the .xml files in the config/options directory an exception is thrown and an error window pops up.   Should I be able to work just fine with two instances of IDEA running, as long as I've got different projects open in each instance?   Thanks, John Pickler