I have a dependency in my Maven project which I cannot get go away, it is making it impossible to build my project.

Understand this is a near duplicate of other questions, but raising here as none of the suggested solutions work.

We are using internal Nexus for all maven dependencies, a direct access is prohibited. Suddenly, the maven import in IntelliJ Idea 2024.1 started to fail while maven command line is still working. Missing dependencies contains vulnerabilities and their binary jars were deleted from Nexus. I tried to locate where these libraries are coming from but they are not referenced in any of our projects and even maven transitive dependencies report cannot find them.

I can’t update the maven repository because the button can’t be pressed.
ITS NOT the case that i press the button and it’s stuck, it doesn’t even start the updating process.

Our company forced me to change to newer Intellij Idea version 2023.1 but I encounter error whenever I build our project in it (using the hammer icon or Build->Build Project, or whenever Intellij runs build automatically):
java: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/JAXBException javax.xml.bind.JAXBException

Since upgrading to IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1 I’ve had a constant problem where even if I Invalidate Caches (with all options checked) and delete .idea, things work for a little bit but then suddenly all the files and directories under the Project view disappear and I get several messages in notifications such as