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Bug 154845

Summary:	Folders containing NetBeans settings shouldn't be in user's home folder
Product:	db	Reporter:	ondrejbohaciak <ondrejbohaciak>
Component:	Derby	Assignee:	Libor Fischmeistr <lfischmeistr>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description ondrejbohaciak 2008-12-06 21:34:15 UTC

There are several folders containing NetBeans settings and other related data that reside in user's home folder. I'm 
using Windows Vista, let's say my username is Ondrej. My user folder (%UserProfile%) is redirected to disk D:\ 
(previously C:\Users\Ondrej). After installing and running NetBeans, these extra folders are created:

D:\.netbeans
D:\.netbeans-derby
D:\.netbeans-registration
C:\Users\Ondrej\.netbeans

I would like it very much if these were relocated to either %ProgramData% directory or to %UserProfile%\My Documents. 
These are the proper folders for kkeping user/machine specific program data. I like to keep my folders tidy ;)

Comment 1 Jaroslav Tulach 2008-12-17 09:07:47 UTC

Btw. You can redirect .netbeans whereever you want with --userdir parameter. For the others, it depends on what Java 
runtime thinks is your home directory. Which apparently is D:\. If anyone can help you, then it would be the laucnher 
maintainer, I guess.

Comment 2 Jaroslav Tulach 2010-04-02 18:27:16 UTC

Assigning to db, because of .netbeans-derby.

Comment 3 matthias42 2014-01-07 13:03:34 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 207507 ***