Yesterday after updating from 2018.1 to 2018.2 PyCharm kept crashing when closing a project. As Pycharm reopens a project upon restart and I normally have a lot of PyCharm instance open, this kind of forced me to open a lot of PyCharms that I don’t need all the time. As the crash also wiped preference changes it couldn’t be changed via the GUI.

I had to edit a config file to change the setting responsible for starting projects after launch.

Reminder for myself in the future, might this happen again.

Edit file:

vim ~/Library/Preferences/PyCharm2018.2/options/ide.general.xml

Changed it to:

<application>
  <component name="GeneralSettings">
    <option name="confirmExit" value="false" />
    <option name="reopenLastProject" value="false" />
  </component>
  <component name="Registry">
    <entry key="ide.ssh.one.time.password" value="true" />
  </component>
</application>