Intelli J IDEA takes forever to update indices

Question

Is it normal for Intelli J to take a lot of time (almost 12 hours) to update indices for a project? I just installed Intelli J on my machine and imported a rather large Mave

Answer 1

Delete caches in library folder

rm -rv ~/Library/Caches/IdeaIC15/caches/

On Mac OSX the location of cache is ~/Library/Caches