Offline Mode in IntelliJ — This Wasted 4 Hours Of My Life

Short article here hoping to increase the probability of saving our collective time, and reduce the probability of people wasting more hours of their life on this silly mistake. In my full-time job, I work with Java, Springboot & Gradle using IntelliJ Ultimate as my IDE.

Here’s What Happened

1. I was assigned a task to fix some code for a new repository (Java, Springboot & Gradle)
2. Loading Gradle project → I realise that the Java dependencies are not being loaded at all
3. I refresh dependencies, investigate the credentials to pull dependencies (In my company, we need this) and try lots of other stuff. This takes a couple of hours and nothing works.
4. I somehow realise that offline mode in IntelliJ was toggled → I toggle it again and the dependencies load fine now
5. I just wasted a couple of hours of my life because I didn’t realise offline mode was on. I’m retarded
6. I’m sharing this here so hopefully more people read this and not make the same stupid mistake as me

Where The Offline Mode Button Is