# At startup IntelliJ: 'Kotlin indexes are corrupted' - Repair IDE

**URL:** <https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/at-startup-intellij-kotlin-indexes-are-corrupted-repair-ide/28694>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [May 31, 2024, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/at-startup-intellij-kotlin-indexes-are-corrupted-repair-ide/28694 "2024-05-31T09:50:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![nkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@nkamp](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/u/nkamp)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/at-startup-intellij-kotlin-indexes-are-corrupted-repair-ide/28694/1 "2024-05-31T09:50:07Z")

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Hello,  
I see I’m not the first one with this issue, but I couldn’t find the solution till now.  
I have IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1.2 (Ultimate Edition)

Every morning when I start up IntelliJ, the main function has a little red ‘x’ in the ‘Open ‘Edit Run/Debug configurations’ dialog’ in front of main. (see screenshot  
Also the function main itself does not have the ‘green triangle’ next to the line numbering.  
So I have to rebuild the Kotlin indexes again by running Repair IDE + Invalidate caches.

After rebuild of the indexes the little red ‘x’ in the ‘Open ‘Edit Run/Debug configurations’ dialog’ is dissapeared and the ‘green triangle’ in front of function main is back.

So I can run the main function again. But this is very annoying, frustrating.

- It’s a Gradle project with a PostgreSQL database.
- Settings Kotlin compiler:  
Kotlin compiler version: 1.8.0;  
Language version: 1.8;  
API version: 1.8;  
Target JVM version:17;  
[selected] Copy library runtime files - destination directory: lib (default I suppose);  
Module kind: Plain

I have disabled a lot of plugins which I think most of them have been installed by default.  
I have installed only a few plugins like: GitToolbox, the suggested plugins for bat, env, sql files.

So I don’t know anymore what I can do about it. I hope that somenone bring some help.

 ![screensshot Repair IDE - kotlin indexes are corrupted](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/kotlinlang/original/2X/d/dea68a28b2c3423cfafdc01614c119c22a7a3d1b.png)

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**Author:** ![nkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@nkamp](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/u/nkamp)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 9:57am UTC](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/at-startup-intellij-kotlin-indexes-are-corrupted-repair-ide/28694/2 "2024-07-16T09:57:09Z")

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I hope that I have found it…

A few months ago I started on a new project.  
At the start I didn’t have access to Gitlab, so I received een project zip file from my colleague with .idea, .gitlab directories etc.

A few weeks ago I removed the directories and now I don’t have the error message anymore.