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Unused property

Reports properties that are not referenced outside of the .properties file they are contained in.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

UnusedProperty
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Properties files

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Unused property inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Analyze only property files whose name matches

Default value:

.*

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection UnusedProperty

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025