techblog 

IntelliJ, the extremely good Java IDE from Jet Brains will often fail to pick up external file changes; for example performing a subversion “svn up” on your source code.

The problem can be fixed by removing or renaming fslogger in IntelliJ’s bin directory (e.g. /Applications/IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3.app/bin) as is well documented.

Jet Brains continue to ship this library — enabled by default — for version after version of IntelliJ. Each time I install a new version, the first thing I have to do is disable fslogger and if I forget, then I tend to end up wrongly accusing a colleague of checking-in broken code.

The fslogger library doesn’t work for anyone here as far as I am aware. Shipping a library that actually stops a product from working, when it works so well without it is something I find hard to understand. Perhaps Jet Brains would consider removing this library from the IntelliJ distribution or shipping it disabled by default.