Cannot find VM options file (Pycharm Community 5.03)

Question

Whenever I attempt to start Pycharm i get the message: Cannot find VM options file. Pycharm does not work because of this.

Answer 1

I suppose you're talking about the first launch after you have downloaded it. Then it's important that you run pycharm.sh from the bin folder. The vm options file is also located there and the path in the script is relative.

Answer 2

the vm options file is missing, you may manually create one: pycharm/bin/pycharm.exe.vmoptions https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544869-Configuring-JVM-options-and-platform-properties