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IDEA deletes user's home directory

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Hello. Today i decided to try IDEA. I downloaded IDEA 14.1.3 community edition, installed Haxe plugin and followed this guide: http://jasonsturges.com/2014/11/28/openfl-and-haxe-in-intellij-14/ Except i was trying to setup plain haxe project with hxml build file.

After i tried to run my project i got this message:

Error:Could not process argument test-neko.hxml (file not found)
Information:invalid character: -

Then i opened project.iml file and found that path to test-neko.hxml is incorrect. I changed it to something like $PROJECT_DIR$/test-neko.hxml (i dont remember exact name of that special var with project path). I hit “Run project”, and IDEA started to clean my home directory! After it deleted IDEA itself and my test project, i noticed something is going wrong…

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Created 8 years ago
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ryandoylecommented, Jan 2, 2019

I’ve been able to reproduce this. If I delete the default module that is created when I open a Haxe project and re-create it, it’s possible to write out a .iml file that has the output folder set to my home directory.

myproject.iml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<module type="HAXE_MODULE" version="4">
  <component name="HaxeModuleSettingsStorage">
    <option name="buildConfig" value="3" />
    <option name="openFLTarget" value="Neko" />
    <option name="outputFolder" value="$USER_HOME$" />
  </component>
  <component name="NewModuleRootManager">
    <output url="file://$USER_HOME$" />
    <exclude-output />
    <content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$">
      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src" isTestSource="false" />
    </content>
    <orderEntry type="jdk" jdkName="Haxe 3.4.7" jdkType="Haxe toolkit" />
    <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
  </component>
</module>

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ianharrigancommented, Feb 25, 2019

OK - thanks @Gama11 - ill hold back a little then until i know this isnt going to be an issue. It looks like i could just look at the .iml file to see what the output dir is also, but id rather not have to remember to do that - the one day i forget to will be the one day this will nuke my C: 😉

Cheers, Ian