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Mark Vedder

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How to get rid of 'Partial' incoming file on Change List

I have a CVS based project. When looking at the Incoming tab of the Change List tool window, there is a file listed there as "partial" (See screenshot). I am unable to get rid of it. The project is up to date both in terms of commits and updates. This particular file was added to the project, and then renamed. As such, the file being notated as "partial" is in the CVS Attic and does not exist any longer on the project's HEAD.

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nodje

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May 23, 2008 5:52 AM

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Re: How to get rid of 'Partial' incoming file on Change List

+1, I'm having exactly the same problem with a SVN based project.

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Stephen Friedrich

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May 23, 2008 12:15 PM

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Re: How to get rid of 'Partial' incoming file on Change List

From the beginning of that feature in Idea that issue popped up again and again,

but it seems not so easy to reproduce and nobody seems to have a good cure for it.

So far the best proposed solution is to wait for the next full moon and exactly on

midnight dance naked around a great oak tree while repeatedly chanting "IntelliJ Rulezzz".

Other than that: Removing Idea's systems folder might help.

By default it's located in your home directory under .IntelliJ70

(IIRC - I am always configuring it to be in Idea's installation folder, so not to

get Idea confused when using multiple instances and (eap) versions in parallel.)

Mark Vedder

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May 23, 2008 8:01 PM

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Re: How to get rid of 'Partial' incoming file on Change List

Stephen Friedrich wrote:

So far the best proposed solution is to wait for the next full moon and exactly on

midnight dance naked around a great oak tree while repeatedly chanting "IntelliJ Rulezzz".

Was that Midnight local time? Or Midnight UTC? That may be why this solution isn't working for me.

Other than that: Removing Idea's systems folder might help.

Well, I hate to kill a fly with a nuke... but this idea (no pun intended) got me to thinking (always a dangerous thing) and pointed me in the right direction. From this tip I was able to find a viable solution/workaround.

I went in to ~/.IntelliJIdea70/system/vcsCache/ (for example ~/.IntelliJIdea70\system\vcsCache\world-domination-projectc3ae9510). In there I found a file with a UUID as a name, and file extension of ".partial". (for example b6412cb1c4ee8a4a81741eccfdc13f86.294328.partial) I shut down IDEA (not sure if this step is necessary or not). Then deleted this file. Restarted IDEA... Problem solved.

Thanks for the info Stephen!

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Mark Vedder

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May 23, 2008 8:04 PM

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Sigh... My victory was short lived. After IDEA did a VCS refresh, the partial annotation in the Changes window came back, as did the uuid.partial file in the project's vcsCache directory.

So how does that dance go?

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Mark Vedder

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May 23, 2008 8:05 PM

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Changing back to unanswered

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Mark Vedder

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May 23, 2008 8:49 PM

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Ok - so this time I shut down IDEA and deleted the entire vcsCahce directory for the project (i.e. deleted the directory .IntelliJIdea70\system\vcsCache\my-project-namec3ae9510). I then restarted IDEA. The partial listing was gone and did not reappear after doing a refresh on the incoming changes. So I did need to use a hammer to kill this fly.

Hope this helps others.

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