Previously when the user wanted to add a library, it would conveniently ask them the navigate to a directory and select a jar, and it would by default name the library based on the jar name. Now the user is prompted for the library name upfront which is not as convenient. The bigger problem with the current behaviour is that IDEA doesn't remember the last selected directory. For example if I had a jar and then want to attach sources, the file navigator takes me back to c:\ and I have to navigate back to that directory. Same goes for attaching javadocs. Finally, after one library is added and the user wants to and another library, previously the file explorer used to default to the last libraries path but now it starts off at C:\ . Typically most third party libraries are grouped together (like a maven repository and having to navigate to the path starting from the root path is a real pain. I'm not sure why this behaviour was recently changed. It used to work great in previous versions of IDEA.