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I would like to recommend a feature that we can use to manually trigger the "Copy files from Source folder to another location". The current "Scan for External Changes" option doesn't always copy new or externally modified files.
I have problems with this feature too. I have this setup so that files are copied to the web root. This works great most of the time. However, sometimes after pulling other sources using TortoiseGit, the external directory is not updated. This causes obscure bugs until we figure out the files aren't synchronized anymore. We currently work around this by deleting the external folder, and then reenabling the "copy sources" feature. This triggers a synchronization, but is very inconvenient. I suppose this warrants a bug report also.
Isn't that a project part?
i had trouble too, i'm working with a seperat Project Folder & git. It worked fine but suddenly after checking out files of a branch the window project folder & file folder were empty & no folder structure were displayed. After closing & restarting netbeans folder structure are displayed again, but after checkout other branches i realized that the files aren't synchronized anymore on my localhost. i did the workaround of CheeseSucker & it's working again. Can't excactly define why it suddenly happen & it was not the first time it happen!
One vote from me too. I've came to the the same conclusion exactly. Do the auto "scan", but add an option/button that can be clicked to force copying source files if we need it. My headache is if I'm working on PHP/web projects, where e.g. image files are also included in the source folder. Currently you need to use external apps to edit/change these images, and sometimes happens, - even if NB is running - that the currently applied changes in the image file in the source folder is not recognized by NB, and the new (edited) image file is not copied over to the "Copy to Folder", leaving there an unchanged (and outdated) copy of the original image. DelD.
Created attachment 148502 [details] IDE Log connected to bug 201535
I use the "Copy files from Sources Folder to another location" to clone my project files (tracked in Git) into a subfolder of an application (WordPress) that is tracked in Git itself. Normally it works but "sometimes" is breaks (SEE https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=148502). Workaround to get it to work: I need to rename the '.git' folder (deactivate git for the destination) of the application "above" the destination of the copy process
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