IntelliJ IDEA won't load Groovy found on my disk

Question

Hi I lately wanted to start developing in Groovy but when I try IntelliJ IDEA it won\'t load Groovy cause it says:

Looks like Groovy distribution in s

Answer 1

It's a known issue:

• IDEA-170022 Cannot create Groovy project, because cannot create Groovy library (2.4.10 version)

As a workaround you can use Groovy 2.4.9 or rename groovy-2.4.10.jar to groovy-2.4.9.jar.

The problem is fixed for IntelliJ IDEA 2017.1.1 and 2016.3.6 versions.