have IntelliJ IDEA refresh the project and detect changed files

Question

I\'m using Eclipse for development because of all the things IntelliJ can\'t do (e.g. highlight all instances of a variable) and because IntelliJ is dog slow over a remote c

Answer 1

Right click on your Project in the left pane and click on "Synchronize"

You can see the status in the round circling icon at the bottom left of the IDE