Probably the problems are related to having NetBeans unzipped in this folder:
"C:\Users\ggreenbe\OneDrive - Visa Inc\Software\netbeans" Folders with spaces never work well on Windows. Gj On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 11:47 PM Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> wrote: > Because there are no installer for NB10, I couldn’t place it anywhere but > under my home directory. > > So, I created C;\Users\...\Software folder and unpacked archive there. > > I certainly do have all privileges in my home directory. > > Just few minutes ago NB froze again and I had to kill it through task > manager and restart. > > New log file doesn’t show any errors. Previous one does show multiple > network timeouts from unsuccessful attempts to download plugins. > > BTW, can you please post URL for the current plugin portal? I will try to > download some outside of IDE. > > *From:* Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 5, 2019 12:04 PM > *To:* Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com>; NetBeans Mailing List < > users@netbeans.apache.org> > *Subject:* Re: Trying out NB10 > > > > You keep removing the mailing list from your responses, please don’t, > there’s many others who could be helping, but you keep excluding them. > > > > Sounds to me like there’s some problem with permissions or the general > setup of your new machine, though it’s impossible to know. > > > > Maybe attach a log file — just keep the mailing list address in your > responses, please. > > > > Gj > > > > > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 23:00, Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> wrote: > > Sorry, > > This one I am trying on Windows 10. Dell Precision 5520, 8 cores, 32GB RAM > > JDK 1.8-202 > > Regarding refreshing userdir – I started from the brand new machine. It > had nothing in it. > > I started installing Chrome, JDK, Postman and Acrobat. Netbeans was the > fifth piece of software installed. > > Userdir was supposed to be prestine. > > > > *From:* Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 5, 2019 11:52 AM > *To:* Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com>; NetBeans Mailing List < > users@netbeans.apache.org> > *Subject:* Re: Trying out NB10 > > > > You claim to be “far from the noob”, yet you had to be told to refresh the > userdir and you haven’t provided a description of your environment, e.g., > the JDK you’re using. What gives? > > > > Gj > > > > > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 22:38, Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> wrote: > > I did delete my userdir and restarted NB. > > Authentication request is now gone, but I still can’t change menu fonts. > > I tried to set it to size 12, 10 and even 5. No affect whatsoever. > > See attached screenshot. > > > > *From:* Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> > *Sent:* Monday, March 4, 2019 8:32 PM > *To:* Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> > *Cc:* NetBeans Mailing List <users@netbeans.apache.org> > *Subject:* Re: Trying out NB10 > > > > Can you start with a fresh user directory? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Gj > > > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 04:03, Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> wrote: > > My previous laptop broke, so I got completely new one and trying to build > my development environment from scratch. > > Instead of NB8.2 which was working for me (with some glitches) for several > years I got the latest Netbeans 10 from netbeans.apache.org > > First start was unsuccessful. It displayed the start page and froze. Did > not respond to anything. I had to kill the process through the task manager. > > Second attempt was a bit better. At least it did not freeze. However, all > menus were displayed in huge font that occupy half of the screen. > > I went to Options->Fonts and Colors and tried to change the font from size > 27 to size 12. I was not able to do that as Netbeans popped me > “Authentication Required” > > window. No idea why it require authentication but I wasn’t able to do it. > I tried my login credentials or the one I used to register a while back on > netbeans.org but neither worked. > > Same thing happened when I tried to change some other settings. Can some > kind soul tell me how do I authenticate there. > > For the same reason I wasn’t able to download a single plugin. Download > failed due to connection problems with plugin portal. When I tried to check > proxy settings I got the same > > “Authentication Required”. > > So far NB10 wasn’t useful for me. > > I am far from the noob, only with Netbeans I am working for 20 years (even > before Sun Microsystems acquired it), but this release looks half-baked to > me. > > I do understand that Apache incubation will cause some disturbances, but > did not expect so many problems. > >
