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When using the windows installer, netbeans 3.3 ask you about backing-up your old directory and let you chose a directory on your own. When you are starting the IDE for the first time, it tries to import old settings (netbeans 3.2.1 in my case) from the default backup directory 'c:\netbeans_backup', and not from the one you choosed with the installer.
Windows installer's issue?
CCing Vita. AFAIK, the installer creates some properties file where is stored the backup directory with files from previous uninstalled version if any. Import settings wizard then reads informations from that file and performs silent import.
Becaues we have new installers and those are done using different technology we won't fix this.
Resolved for 3.4 or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.