Why so red? IntelliJ seems to think every declaration/method cannot be found/resolved

Question

I just installed and re-installed IntelliJ. Every Java file is coming up RED. I checked the JDK; it is at 1.6.##. The maven clean install build worked just fine

Answer 1

I had the same issue, what fixed it for me was:

Go to File>Setting>Maven, I set the Maven home directory, settings file and local repo.

Go to Maven Projects and click on Reimport All Maven Projects

This did the trick!