Directories used by the IDE | PyCharm
www.jetbrains.com › help › pycharmNov 08, 2021 · After you restart PyCharm, it will use the new location of the corresponding directory. Clean up old IDE directories. Every time you install a new major version of PyCharm, it uses a new set of IDE directories and automatically deletes the caches and logs directories for older versions of the IDE that have not been updated in the last 180 days.