Directory-Based Settings
In the Rider settings dialog Ctrl+Alt+S, you can look at page icons to see, which setting-management mechanism is used for specific pages:
Pages that are not marked with any icon host IDE settings which are saved in your user profile.
Solution-level vs IDE-level settings
Preferences for Rider's front-end features, which are based on IntelliJ Platform, are saved in the directory-based format — in XML files in two specific places:
Your IDE settings — such as IDE layout, preferred keymap, editor settings — are saved in your user profile (%APPDATA%\JetBrains\RiderXX on Windows, ~/.config/JetBrains/RiderXX on Linux, and ~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/RiderXX on macOS).
Your solution-specific settings — for example, Version Control integration, code style preferences — are saved under .idea\.idea.[Solution_Name]\.idea (hidden on macOS) in the solution directory.
Solution-level settings
The solution-level settings are applied to the current solution only. These settings are stored together with other solution files in the .idea directory.
If your solution is under a version control system, it is recommended that you store XML files with solution-specific settings (the .idea folder inside the solution folder) under version control, the exception being workspace.xml and tasks.xml, which store user-specific settings.
You can refer to JetBrains.gitignore on GitHub to see what should be ignored.
Access the solution-level settings
Do one of the following:
Press Ctrl+Alt+S
From the main menu, select
for Windows and Linux, or for macOS
Copy global settings to the project level
IDE-level (global) settings
The IDE level (global) settings are applied to all newly created projects. The list of the IDE-level settings contains less options, but it enables you to change the editor settings, create custom scopes, configure inspections, set VCS-specific settings, and so on.
If you want to share the IDE settings between already existing solutions, you can use the and import it later to other IDE instances.
Access the IDE-level settings
From the main menu, select
for Windows and Linux, or for macOS.
Restore the default IDE settings
To restore the JetBrains Rider default settings, remove the configuration directory idea.config.path when the IDE is not running.
- Syntax
- %APPDATA%\JetBrains\<product><version>
- Example
- C:\Users\JohnS\AppData\Roaming\JetBrains\Rider2020.2
- Syntax
- ~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/<product><version>
- Example
- ~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Rider2020.2
- Syntax
- ~/.config/JetBrains/<product><version>
- Example
- ~/.config/JetBrains/Rider2020.2
For more information, see JetBrains Rider configuration directory.