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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)
Created attachment 72662 [details] Cannot create subdirectory "X" of Documents
Created attachment 72663 [details] New folder icon incorrectly disabled in the Documents folder
reassign to openide for evaluation
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 ***
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)