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Bug 162716

Summary:	cannot create project in My Documents folder
Product:	apisupport	Reporter:	matusdekanek <matusdekanek>
Component:	Project	Assignee:	rmichalsky <rmichalsky>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX
Severity:	blocker	Keywords:	JDK_SPECIFIC
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	screenshot

Description matusdekanek 2009-04-15 13:39:10 UTC

Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 200904150201)
Java: 1.6.0_14-ea; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 14.0-b12
System: Windows XP version 5.1 running on x86; Cp1252; en_US (nb)

Try to create project in My Documents folder (winxp) - for some reason, new project dialog does not allow it, showing 
message 'location exists, but is not writeable' or 'project folder cannot be created', although there should be no 
problem like this (user has sufficient rights to do that).

Comment 1 matusdekanek 2009-04-15 13:39:40 UTC

Created attachment 80150 [details]
screenshot

Comment 2 Milos Kleint 2009-04-15 13:44:14 UTC

apisupport

Comment 3 rmichalsky 2009-04-15 15:25:00 UTC

Problem in JDK, File.canWrite() reports false on Windows system folders. An ugly workaround would be to actually try to
create and delete dummy file in specified location, but File.canWrite() is scattered through all types of projects. 

Will try to reopen JDK bug, if I ever get Bugster account...

Comment 4 Jesse Glick 2009-04-15 18:39:05 UTC

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4939819

claims this is only fixed in JDK 7.

Comment 5 rmichalsky 2009-04-16 08:52:16 UTC

I see, I didn't understand cryptic '7(b30)' tag, thanks.

Comment 6 Marian Mirilovic 2011-06-09 09:57:14 UTC

v/c