While configuring Intellij IDEA settings, I’m wondering what should be specified into the option: “Config or installation directory“:

At first, I researched this type of the question, checking tutorials, as for instance:

• IntelliJ IDEA Tutorial – How to Install and Configure [2020]
• IntelliJ IDEA Beginner Tutorial | Download and Setup
• How to Setup settings.xml for Intellij and Maven Project | Intellij | Maven
• How to Install IntellijIDEA with Java 18 on Windows 10
• Configure your intelliJ project
• IntelliJ IDEA Tutorial
• How to install IntelliJ IDEA on Windows 10/11 (64 bit) [ 2023 Update ] Java 19

also I have checked the articles as:

• Installing IntelliJ IDEA
• IntelliJ configuration directory
• Directories used by the IDE

and came to the conclusion it should be the path, as the following:

C:Program FilesJetBrainsIntelliJ IDEA 2023.2.5binidea.properties

But I’m still confusing, because none of provided sources don’t answer directly on my question or ignoring fully this option as an alternative variant. I’m looking for any official information from any documentations what should I specify into the option "Config or installation directory", if I don’t want to configure using "Do not import settings".

To clarify:

I don’t consider the “Do not import settings” option at all in this case, because I don’t want to use the default configuration, but choose specifically the one that was applied in one of the versions I was already using.

Thank you in advance for help.