intellij accessing invalid virtual file

Question

Please help me I am stuck due to below weird behavior of Intellij 2021.2.4(Ultimate Edition) I am getting error after opening project in Intellij as below :

"Accessing invalid virtual file: file://; original:12323; found:12333; File.exists()=true.

I restarted my machine on weekend and then opened the Intellij Idea today morning . I have tried below solutions but in vain 1.Invalid Caches 2.Remove idea64.exe.vmoptions

Thanks in advance .

Answer 1

I had this same issue just now. For me, I was running our app via JavaScript Debug task and the app would immediately fail; I'd get the error message in a "red balloon" above my Debug tool window tab.

Following the advice of @Andrey I checked the logs. Sure enough, there was a hint:

com.intellij.openapi.vfs.InvalidVirtualFileAccessException: Accessing invalid virtual file: file:///Users/randy/projects/..../.../notifications; original:804838; found:805846; File.exists()=true
    at com.intellij.openapi.vfs.newvfs.impl.VirtualDirectoryImpl.handleInvalidDirectory(VirtualDirectoryImpl.java:190)
    at com.intellij.openapi.vfs.newvfs.impl.VirtualDirectoryImpl.doFindChild(VirtualDirectoryImpl.java:111)
    at com.intellij.openapi.vfs.newvfs.impl.VirtualDirectoryImpl.findChild(VirtualDirectoryImpl.java:77)
    at com.intellij.openapi.vfs.newvfs.impl.VirtualDirectoryImpl.findChild(VirtualDirectoryImpl.java:500)
    at com.intellij.openapi.vfs.newvfs.impl.VirtualDirectoryImpl.findChild(VirtualDirectoryImpl.java:44)
    at com.intellij.javascript.debugger.JavaScriptDebugProcess.isMeteorClientScript(JavaScriptDebugProcess.kt:587)
    at com.intellij.javascript.debugger.JavaScriptDebugProcess.getLocationsForBreakpoint(JavaScriptDebugProcess.kt:538)
    at com.intellij.javascript.debugger.JSLineBreakpointManagerBase.setBreakpoint(JSLineBreakpointManagerBase.kt:36)
    at com.intellij.javascript.debugger.breakpoints.JSLineBreakpointHandler.registerBreakpoint(JSLineBreakpointHandler.kt:17)
    at com.intellij.javascript.debugger.breakpoints.JSLineBreakpointHandler.registerBreakpoint(JSLineBreakpointHandler.kt:12)

IntelliJ was trying to register breakpoints when it crashed. From there, I simply opened the Breakpoints dialog and trashed everything since they were all recent and moot anyway.

After that, I just closed the debug browser window that was left from my last failed attempt, then reran the Debug config. Everything worked as expected.