I've installed IDEA8 (RC2) on PC. After that I changed idea.properties file. I put following instead of default values:
- path to IDEA config folder. Make sure you're using forward slashes
idea.config.path=${user.home}/.dianafinal/config
- path to IDEA system folder. Make sure you're using forward slashes
idea.system.path=${user.home}/.dianafinal/system
- path to user installed plugins folder. Make sure you're using forward slashes
idea.plugins.path=${user.home}/.dianafinal/config/plugins
IDEA successfully created caches and other stuff there.
The day after I wanted to uninstall rc2.. I set options delete plugins and caches on. I was surprised that idea removed caches from .IntelliJIdea80 folder =))
God bless my caches..