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This issue has been reported by multiple people in multiple issues already. However, since this issue seems to be getting little to no attention and is often closed with a "worksforme" or "fixed" (which it isn't), I thought I'd highlight it once more. Under multiple differing circumstances and without prior warning, the "Copy sources to another location" feature simply stops working or only work partially. This issue can be found on Windows as well as Linux (Ubuntu 9.04 in my case) and can be seen in NetBeans 6.5, 6.7, 6.7.1 and 6.8m1 (which I downloaded specifically to test this). With the "Copy sources to another location" feature enabled for a project, where the target IS writable, the initial copy of the sources directory never happens. However if I edit and save an individual file then that is copied to the "another location" properly. This USED to work WITH subversion just fine on both 6.5 and 6.7. The problem started popping up randomly and was usually "fixable" by closing NetBeans, deleting the "another location" and restarting NetBeans. This in itself is already an annoying work around, but this workaround also seems to have stopped working. Please also see the following issues since these are all related to the same problem: http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=164795 http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=169139 http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=164535 http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=156084 http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=170726 http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=166672 http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=166781 Just to make sure SVN wasn't the problem, I tried disabling it. I also tried disabling version control for target folders as mentioned in issue 166781 by creating a versioning.properties file. This also did not work. Quite a number of people have encountered this problem and at least for me, it is annoying enough and makes NetBeans unworkable enough to think about switching to another IDE. (which I'd HATE to do since I otherwise love NetBeans, expect for this issue)
*bump*
*** Issue 169545 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Have a look at issue #172139 for more information. Thanks. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 172139 ***
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *200909151512* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/92156acd0b54 User: Tomas Mysik <tmysik@netbeans.org> Log: CopySupport fixing & refactoring (part 1) After finished, this should fix many issues, e.g. #171336.