Intellij IDEA crashed, and now throws an error

Question

I work in Intellij IDEA, but my computer freezes so I turn off my computer. (long click power button) When I turned on computer and start IntelliJ IDEA I had this error:

Answer 1

This answer works for both IntelliJ & AndroidStudio

If you cannot even open your project in IntelliJ[AndroidStudio]:

• Close IntelliJ[AndroidStudio]

• Go to the directory /.IntelliJIdeaXX[.AndroidStudioXX]/system/cache

  WHERE

  • is

    • Windows Users: C:\Users\<**Your User**>\ (or %USERPROFILE%)
    • Linux Users(Ubuntu), Mac: ~/

  • XX is your IntelliJ version (This directory is "caches" in some versions.)

• Remove all the files in the cache directory.
• Then restart IntelliJ[AndroidStudio]

This has worked for me in the past.