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Bug 151392

Summary:	The folder RO flag is not handled correctly
Product:	platform	Reporter:	jirka_x1 <jirka_x1>
Component:	Filesystems	Assignee:	Jiri Skrivanek <jskrivanek>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker	CC:	mpetras
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	Cannot create subdirectory "X" of Documents New folder icon incorrectly disabled in the Documents folder

Description jirka_x1 2008-10-26 14:18:43 UTC

In various Open/Save dialogs, including the a New Project dialog, the IDE thinks it cannot create subdirectory of the
windows Documents directory (My Documents on XP), claiming the project is read-only (see attachments). 

However, Windows uses the RO flag not to mark the folder as read-only, but as customized
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256614). So netbeans should ignore that flag on folders. 

Workaround: Create the directory in any program that knows how directory permissions in  Windows work (e.g, Win
Explorer, Total Commander, etc)

This affect not only Win XP but also Win Vista (I could not select it in the OS list)

Comment 1 jirka_x1 2008-10-26 14:20:38 UTC

Created attachment 72662 [details]
Cannot create subdirectory "X" of Documents

Comment 2 jirka_x1 2008-10-26 14:21:56 UTC

Created attachment 72663 [details]
New folder icon incorrectly disabled in the Documents folder

Comment 3 Jana Maleckova 2008-10-26 22:04:46 UTC

reassign to openide for evaluation

Comment 4 Jiri Skrivanek 2008-10-27 09:55:28 UTC

It is a bug in JDK and it is fixed in JDK7 (see http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4939819). As default
target for NetBeans projects is suggested C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\NetBeansProjects.


*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 50143 ***

Comment 5 jirka_x1 2008-12-22 16:20:09 UTC

It seems weird to wait for JDK 7 which won't be out for another year, when the work-around for this bug is about 2 or 3
lines of code (check read-only only if not on windows)