How to force IntelliJ to use a different home folder

Question

I have a computer with two hard drives. In the first one, an SSD disk, I have Windows partition (C) and on the second one (D), a raid volume, I install all the programs. I also

Answer 1

As dawez allready answered, you should edit idea.properties to set config, system, plugins and log paths.

But if you want to change the user.home path, then you must edit idea.exe.vmoptions file. Just add the following at the end of the file:

-Duser.home=your_new_user_home_path

If you use idea64.exe then you should edit idea64.exe.vmoptions file.