We have a solution that several developers work on, which is stored in Subversion, including its .resharper file. Once in a while a developer makes some R# configuration change, eg. adding a LiveTemplate and commits it to SVN, but the change is "undone" in a subsequent commit by another developer (eg. the LiveTemplate is deleted). I believe that this is happening, because developers often update their working copies of the code from SVN with the solution open in VS.NET (there is normally no need to close it, because VS.NET automatically detects any changes), then at some later point R# saves its own configuration from memory to the .resharper file, overwriting the changes retrieved from source control. This really needs to be handled better. Ideally R# should watch for changes to the file and reload it when it changes, but apply any locally made changes to the updated file. Eg. if open the solution, add a new LiveTemplate, do an SVN Update which also adds a LiveTemplate then the updated file should contain both of them. If this cannot be done then R# should at least inform the user of what happened and let them manually merge the file. It should not lose any changes in any case.