title: Where does intellij idea store binary, source and javadoc jar files?
body: <p>When importing a maven folder into intellij, I check these options:</p>
  
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  <p>But after indexing and downloading and other busy activities shown in the status bar, I still can't find binary, source or javadoc jar files:</p>
  
  <pre><code>tree .
  .
  ├── funFx.iml
  ├── pom.xml
  └── src
      ├── main
      │   └── java
      │       └── vu
      │           └── co
      │               └── kspace
      │                   ├── App.java
      │                   ├── Digits.java
      │                   ├── ISBN10.java
      │                   └── Point.java
      └── test
          └── java
              └── vu
                  └── co
                      └── kspace
                          └── AppTest.java
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The external libraries tree is showing that binary jars are there, though:</p>
  
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  <p>The only hidden dir is .idea:</p>
  
  <pre><code>tree .idea
  .idea
  ├── compiler.xml
  ├── encodings.xml
  ├── libraries
  │   ├── Maven__com_github_fommil_jniloader_1_1.xml
  │   ├── Maven__com_github_fommil_netlib_core_1_1_2.xml
  │   ├── Maven__com_github_fommil_netlib_native_ref_java_1_1.xml
  │   ├── Maven__com_github_fommil_netlib_native_system_java_1_1.xml
  │   ├── Maven__com_github_fommil_netlib_netlib_native_ref_linux_armhf_natives_1_1.xml
  │   ├── Maven__com_github_fommil_netlib_netlib_native_ref_linux_i686_natives_1_1.xml
  │   ├── Maven__com_github_fommil_netlib_netlib_native_ref_linux_x86_64_natives_1_1.xml
  │   ├── Maven__com_github_fommil_netlib_netlib_native_ref_osx_x86_64_natives_1_1.xml
  │   ├── Maven__com_github_fommil_netlib_netlib_native_ref_win_i686_natives_1_1.xml
  │   ├── Maven__com_github_fommil_netlib_netlib_native_ref_win_x86_64_natives_1_1.xml
  │   ├── Maven__com_github_fommil_netlib_netlib_native_system_linux_armhf_natives_1_1.xml
  │   ├── Maven__com_github_fommil_netlib_netlib_native_system_linux_i686_natives_1_1.xml
  │   ├── Maven__com_github_fommil_netlib_netlib_native_system_linux_x86_64_natives_1_1.xml
  │   ├── Maven__com_github_fommil_netlib_netlib_native_system_osx_x86_64_natives_1_1.xml
  │   ├── Maven__com_github_fommil_netlib_netlib_native_system_win_i686_natives_1_1.xml
  │   ├── Maven__com_github_fommil_netlib_netlib_native_system_win_x86_64_natives_1_1.xml
  │   ├── Maven__com_googlecode_matrix_toolkits_java_mtj_1_0_3.xml
  │   ├── Maven__junit_junit_3_8_1.xml
  │   └── Maven__net_sourceforge_f2j_arpack_combined_all_0_1.xml
  ├── misc.xml
  ├── modules.xml
  ├── vcs.xml
  └── workspace.xml
  
  1 directory, 25 files
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Doc files has clearly been downloaded: </p>
  
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