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Bug 126849 - 6.1M1 does not offer to import settings from a previous 6.0 installation
Summary: 6.1M1 does not offer to import settings from a previous 6.0 installation
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 126015
Alias: None
Product: ide
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Import Settings (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: rmatous
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Reported: 2008-02-06 16:28 UTC by matthies
Modified: 2008-12-23 00:39 UTC (History)
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Description matthies 2008-02-06 16:28:23 UTC 
6.1M1 does not offer to import settings from a previous 6.0 installation (only from a 5.x installation).

Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 200801280931)
Java: 1.6.0_02; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.6.0_02-b05
System: Windows XP version 5.1 running on x86; Cp1252; en_US (nb)
Comment 1 matthies 2008-02-06 16:32:40 UTC 
Maybe someone can provide a workaround. I'd like to start testing NB 6.1, but only if there's some straightforward way 
to transfer my settings from 6.0.
Comment 2 Lukas Hasik 2008-02-06 17:12:36 UTC 
http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqAlternateUserdir

or just copy the 6.0 setting to 6.1 userdir. Depends what settings you need

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 126015 ***