IntelliJ not starting after OS X Yosemite update

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Guido Celada picture Guido Celada · Oct 17, 2014 · Viewed 29k times · Source

I upgraded my OS X to Yosemite and now my IntelliJ IDE is not starting.

Here is the error message:

To open “IntelliJ IDEA” you need to install the legacy Java SE 6 runtime.

Answer

Guido Celada picture Guido Celada · Oct 17, 2014

What you need to do is go ahead and edit this file:

/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA 13.app/Contents/Info.plist

Replacing this:

<key>JVMVersion</key>
<string>1.6*</string>

with this:

<key>JVMVersion</key>
<string>1.7*</string>

Edit: As said by intellij member @crazycoder, the recomended way to total fix this is to install the latest jdk 1.6

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