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"Unable to save settings. Please restart PhpStorm"

See original GitHub issue

Machine

PhpStorm 2020.3 EAP Build #PS-203.4203.36, built on October 1, 2020 PhpStorm EAP User Expiration date: October 31, 2020 Runtime version: 11.0.8+10-b1098.1 x86_x64 VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.

Symfony plugin version: 0.21.202

macOS Catalina 10.15.7

Screen

Logs

2020-10-03 21:13:56,373 [2030320]   WARN - mponents.impl.stores.StoreUtil - Save settings failed
java.io.IOException: Cannot create file '/symfony2.xml'
	at com.intellij.openapi.vfs.impl.local.LocalFileSystemBase.createChildFile(LocalFileSystemBase.java:337)
	at com.intellij.openapi.vfs.newvfs.persistent.PersistentFSImpl.createChildFile(PersistentFSImpl.java:498)
	at com.intellij.openapi.vfs.newvfs.impl.VirtualFileSystemEntry.createChildData(VirtualFileSystemEntry.java:275)
	at com.intellij.configurationStore.StorageUtilKt.getOrCreateVirtualFile(storageUtil.kt:147)
	at com.intellij.configurationStore.FileBasedStorageKt.writeFile(FileBasedStorage.kt:269)
	at com.intellij.configurationStore.FileBasedStorage$FileSaveSession.saveLocally(FileBasedStorage.kt:115)
	at com.intellij.configurationStore.XmlElementStorage$XmlElementStorageSaveSession$SaveExecutor.save(XmlElementStorage.kt:164)
	at com.intellij.configurationStore.SaveExecutorKt.executeSave(SaveExecutor.kt:92)
	at com.intellij.configurationStore.SaveExecutorKt.saveSessions(SaveExecutor.kt:86)
	at com.intellij.configurationStore.ProjectSaveSessionProducerManager$saveWithAdditionalSaveSessions$$inlined$withEdtContext$1$lambda$1.compute(actions.kt:61)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.lambda$runWriteAction$16(ApplicationImpl.java:1009)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.runWriteActionWithClass(ApplicationImpl.java:988)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.runWriteAction(ApplicationImpl.java:1009)
	at com.intellij.configurationStore.ProjectSaveSessionProducerManager$saveWithAdditionalSaveSessions$$inlined$withEdtContext$1.invokeSuspend(ComponentStoreImpl.kt:709)
	at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:33)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:56)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.constraints.BaseConstrainedExecution$Companion$scheduleWithinConstraints$1.invoke(BaseConstrainedExecution.kt:68)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.constraints.BaseConstrainedExecution$Companion.scheduleWithinConstraints(BaseConstrainedExecution.kt:71)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.constraints.BaseConstrainedExecution.scheduleWithinConstraints(BaseConstrainedExecution.kt:38)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.BaseExpirableExecutorMixinImpl.access$scheduleWithinConstraints$s1153900543(BaseExpirableExecutorMixinImpl.kt:12)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.BaseExpirableExecutorMixinImpl$scheduleWithinConstraints$$inlined$Runnable$1.run(Runnable.kt:19)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl.runWithWritingAllowed(TransactionGuardImpl.java:216)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl.access$200(TransactionGuardImpl.java:24)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl$2.run(TransactionGuardImpl.java:199)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.runIntendedWriteActionOnCurrentThread(ApplicationImpl.java:822)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.lambda$invokeLater$4(ApplicationImpl.java:323)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.FlushQueue.doRun(FlushQueue.java:85)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.FlushQueue.runNextEvent(FlushQueue.java:134)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.FlushQueue.flushNow(FlushQueue.java:47)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.FlushQueue$FlushNow.run(FlushQueue.java:190)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:313)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:776)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:727)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:721)
	at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:85)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:746)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.defaultDispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:973)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue._dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:840)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.lambda$dispatchEvent$8(IdeEventQueue.java:451)
	at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.computePrioritized(CoreProgressManager.java:773)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.lambda$dispatchEvent$9(IdeEventQueue.java:450)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.runIntendedWriteActionOnCurrentThread(ApplicationImpl.java:822)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:498)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:203)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:124)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:113)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:109)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:90)