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Hey Guys, While I upgraded to PHPStorm 10.0.2 and restarted it, I got this message at the top right corner of this IDE Project Data Sources: re-sync required Unsupported format version 2.2 - (2.4 expected) While that got me puzzled for a while, I thought, because its something to do with data sources, thus possibly there must be some issue there, It turned out to be true, All you have to do is to GoTo View > Tools Window > Database and then hit that refresh (Sync button) Here is how it looks That fixed it for me If you fixed it using some other way, please do share Cheers   … [Read more...]

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