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C:\Users\[profile name] is NOT for .nbi, .netbeans, and .netbeans-registration folders. Have Netbeans create a folder under C:\Users\[profile name\AppData\Roaming\ (call it Netbeans, preferably) and store anything you want there. But don't store your stuff in the profile folder. It's not what it's for. Moreover, putting a '.' in front of a folder or file name doesn't make it hidden on Windows.
> It's not what it's for. And what is it for then? *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 168443 ***
Netbeans stores too much data in my C:\Documents and Settings\userid\.netbeans folder, and I want to change the location of that. I can't see a setting in netbeans to do it though - has anyone else done this? To explain the reasoning behind my request, our office PC systems copy profile data back to the server to allow roaming profiles, and I don't want it copied to the server.
NetBeans Userdir (which is %USERPROFILE%/.netbeans/<version>) can be overridden by using "netbeans_default_userdir" in <installdir>/etc/netbeans.conf. NetBeans still store some data in %USERPROFILE% that is %USERPROFILE%/.netbeans/.superId and %USERPROFILE%/.netbeans-registration. You can override that by adding -J-Duser.home=<another-user-profiler-directory> to "netbeans_default_options" in netbeans.conf file above. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 168443 ***