Somehow, I managed to break my refactoring capabilities in Intellij IDEA 12. I have somehow disabled it for my project. Renaming a member through <kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>F6</kbd> doesn't work. The inline edit box is not drawn, nothing happens. I know of the refactoring settings in <code>Settings -> Editor</code>, <code>Enable in-place mode</code> and <code>Preselect old name</code> are both checked. It has to be some kind of project setting. I checked by creating a test project, adding some member and renaming it, which works perfectly. What setting am I looking for? Or could my project be broken?

There is no way to turn refactoring off in the settings. My guess is that the project's cache/indexes are corrupted. I had a case once where refactoring, especially renames, stopped working. A re-index solved it for me. Go to File >Invalidate Caches, invalidate your caches, restart IDEA, and let IDEA re-index the project (progress is shown in the bottom status bar right of center). Then try the refactoring. If that does not solve it, take a look in the logs (Help > Show Log) and see if there is any indication in there as to the cause of the issue.

Fo all the MacOS users, do not forget to access <code>Settings -> Keyboard</code> and turn on the flag for the option <code>Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys</code>. E.g.: <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/P3JNj.png" alt="enter image description here"> Otherwise IntelliJ will not get the focus to use the <kbd>F4</kbd> key.

Following step worked for me: From your IDE, go to: <code>Preferences -> Project Structure -> Add Content Root</code>, then select the folder you want to use.

None of the above steps worked for me in IDEA 2021.2.4 (Ultimate Edition). I got the following error message when trying to rename a file and its usages: <pre class="prettyprint"><code>Cannot perform refactoring. Selected file is not located inside the project. </code></pre> Instead, I had to create a new module. File > Project Structure > Modules > Add (+) > Import module > Select <root_folder_of_your_project> This reindexed the whole project, which took a couple of minutes, and restored the Refactor > Rename functionality.

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Somehow, I managed to break my refactoring capabilities in Intellij IDEA 12. I have somehow disabled it for my project. Renaming a member through Shift+F6 doesn't work. The inline edit box is not drawn, nothing happens.

I know of the refactoring settings in Settings -> Editor, Enable in-place mode and Preselect old name are both checked.

It has to be some kind of project setting. I checked by creating a test project, adding some member and renaming it, which works perfectly.

What setting am I looking for? Or could my project be broken?

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asked Nov 05 '13 14:11

Rens Verhage

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There is no way to turn refactoring off in the settings. My guess is that the project's cache/indexes are corrupted. I had a case once where refactoring, especially renames, stopped working. A re-index solved it for me. Go to File >Invalidate Caches, invalidate your caches, restart IDEA, and let IDEA re-index the project (progress is shown in the bottom status bar right of center). Then try the refactoring.

If that does not solve it, take a look in the logs (Help > Show Log) and see if there is any indication in there as to the cause of the issue.

answered Oct 20 '22 06:10

Javaru

Fo all the MacOS users, do not forget to access Settings -> Keyboard and turn on the flag for the option Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys. E.g.:

enter image description here

Otherwise IntelliJ will not get the focus to use the F4 key.

answered Oct 20 '22 05:10

JeanValjean

Following step worked for me:

From your IDE, go to: Preferences -> Project Structure -> Add Content Root, then select the folder you want to use.

answered Oct 20 '22 06:10

BlackBeard

None of the above steps worked for me in IDEA 2021.2.4 (Ultimate Edition). I got the following error message when trying to rename a file and its usages:

Cannot perform refactoring. Selected file is not located inside the project.

Instead, I had to create a new module.

File > Project Structure > Modules > Add (+) > Import module > Select <root_folder_of_your_project>

This reindexed the whole project, which took a couple of minutes, and restored the Refactor > Rename functionality.