Re: Disaster!!:Renaming Project Action Failed and Deleted all My Source Code Along with no hope of recovery

Thomas Kellerer <[email protected]> Wed, 28 May 2008 23:15:05 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.ide.netbeans.user,gmane.comp.java.netbeans.user-interface
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thomas Kellerer wrote on 28.05.2008 22:52:
> Ayodeji Aladejebi wrote on 28.05.2008 11:45:
>> If you love yourself, dont ever attempt to rename your project using 
>> Netbeans. I am using version 6.1 and the IDE has almost thrown my 
>> project into disaster
>>
>> Maybe blogging fully about this will show some of the very dangerous 
>> bugs living inside the IDE
>>
> I have done that about a dozen times now, and NB has never deleted my 
> sources unless I actually checked the option "Delete sources".
> Maybe you missed that one?
> 

Silly me. That option is of course only available when deleting a project. When 
renaming, there is an option to rename the folder as well. Could it be that this 
"moved" the source to some other directory?

Thomas