In IntelliJ on OS X, how do you clear out all global setting info, licensing etc. (external to any project)

Question

I am having some low level issues with IntelliJ on my mac, I really want to just zero everything out and start over. But even after removing the application and re-installi

Answer 1

run the following commands in terminal to remove completely. worked for me

rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.jetbrains.intellij.plist
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.jetbrains.intellij.plist.lockfile
rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/com.jetbrains.intellij*
rm -Rf ~/Library/Logs/IntelliJIdea13
rm -Rf ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.jetbrains.intellij.savedState
rm -Rf /Applications/IntelliJ*  
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/IntelliJ*  
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.google.intellij.*  
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.intellij.*  
rm -Rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/IntelliJ*  
rm -Rf ~/Library/Logs/IntelliJ*  
rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/IntelliJ*  
rm -Rf ~/.IntelliJ*  
rm -Rf ~/Library/Intellij*