Forgot to mention - I also did a ‘find . -name twolf -print’ in my $HOME directory to see if there was another ’twolf’ directory/ somewhere - there wasn’t. Again, any other help is appreciated. Tom
On Dec 1, 2021 at 6:22:20 PM, Thomas Wolf <tjw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Laszlo, > I checked my $HOME directory and I don’t have nbproject/, build.xml, > pom.xml, build.gradle, or settings.gradle there. Any other files I could > look for? > > Where does FileOwnerQuery get ’twolf’ from? Where is this information > stored? Does NB go through my entire filesystem looking for files like the > above to find existing projects? > > Any further help is appreciated, > Tom > > > On Dec 1, 2021 at 6:07:02 PM, Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> It seems you have already something in your (most probably home folder) >> what NetBeans detects as a project. >> >> We have a thing called FileOwnerQuery which shall able to say that a >> folder belongs to what project. In this case we call it on >> /Users/twols/spectare/satriage/src and we are expecting a null (not owned >> by any project), instead that query says that this folder belongs to a >> project called twolf >> >> So I'd look for project files like nbproject/ folder, build.xml, pom.xml, >> build.gradle and settings.gradle files in your home folder. >> >> >> On 12/1/21 13:55, Thomas Wolf wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> I’m at a loss here. I hope you guys can help: >> >> I created a completely new GIT repository on my mac at: >> >> /Users/twolf/spectare/git/satriage >> and then created a src/ directory under it. >> >> Next, I opened Netbeans and tried to create a project this way (have done >> this dozens of times without trouble): >> >> New Project… -> Java with Ant -> Java with Existing Source >> >> I enter a project name ‘satriage’ and hit ‘Next’ where I’m asked to enter >> a source package folder. I try to enter: >> >> /Users/twolf/spectare/git/satriage/src/ >> >> but I get an error message about that package having been used in another >> project??? (see attached error dialog) >> Nonetheless, I did a ‘grep -r ‘satriage’ . in my NetBeansProjects/ >> directory to see if any project references this directory - but none do. I >> also deleted $HOME/Library/Caches/NetBeans/12.4/ in case thee’s some old, >> cached info that might be to blame - but no luck. Still getting that error >> :-( >> Then I deleted $HOME/Library/Application Support/NetBeans/12.4 - still >> the same error :-( >> Next, I renamed my $HOME/NetBeansProjects/ directory - again, same error >> :-( >> >> In my desperation, I installed Netbeans 12.5 from scratch and without >> importing any settings from 12.4. But STILL the same error :-( Neither NB >> 12.4 nor 12.5 had any projects open when I did this, so how does NB decide >> that the package is in use in another project??? >> >> >> Again, in terms of env, I’m running NB 12.4 w. JDK 17 on macOS Monterey. >> >> If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Thanks a bunch, >> tom >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org >> >> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, >> visit:https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists >> >>
