My .class files keep auto-updating their timestamp every minute

[John]

Once I have compiled a change to one of my java class files, the class file that is generated updates the timestamp of the rebuilt class file as expected but then appears to be updating its timestamp every minute without any interference from me. I don’t have any other application open and when I close Netbeans, the incrementing of the timestamp stops.   It may actually be updating the timestamp more regularly than that, but I can only see the minutes change in the Windows File Explorer. The timestamp on just the recompiled class does refresh exactly on the minute though. If I Shift-F11 to rebuild all the classes in the project, then they all change their timestamps on the minute.   I can repeat the behaviour each time I start Netbeans and (say) make a minor change to another java class file and F11 to rebuild. That .class file now starts auto-incrementing its timestamp.   This is causing Tomcat issues as it is checking for any file changes and then refreshing its WebApp which means that I have to shut down   Anyone else noticed this and is there a setting to disable it if   I am currently using Netbeans 12.6 using Java 17.   I have amended the default Maven .pom file to store the classes directly into the WEB-INF\classes folder of my web application for convenience but I can’t see why that would have any impact, but mention it for completeness.       <build>         <outputDirectory>C:\Development\Tomcat\apache-tomcat-10.0.16\webapps\honeycomb\WEB-INF\classes</outputDirectory>     </build>   Having Googled for issues, they suggested clearing cache and turning off Tools > Options > Miscellaneous > Files tab > “Enable auto-scanning of sources”   I have cleared the Netbeans cache and relaunched NetBeans having restarted Windows (just to be sure!), I left it for a while to refresh the cache.   As an aside, I had ‘Background scanning projects’ keep repeating (every second or so) until I shut NetBeans down. Previously, prior to clearing the cache this message rotated ad-infinitum with ‘Checking for external changes’. This appears to have gone away for now, having closed and restarted Netbeans again.   Any help would be appreciated as I currently have to keep Netbeans closed most of the time in order for my testing / front end to work as expected.   Thanks in advance   John --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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