Manually rebuild PyCharm index

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Sometimes PyCharm becomes very slow. And after 20-30 mins of slowness, it rebuilds its index. Are there any ways to manually trigger rebuilding PyCharm indexes?

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score 37 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 02 '17 at 23:54

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"File" > "Invalidate Caches / Restart..."

edited Oct 02 '17 at 23:54

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answered Feb 15 '15 at 07:58

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There isn't a better option than restarting the whole process? – J_C Nov 14 '18 at 16:11

Manually rebuild PyCharm index

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