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NetBeans 7.0M2 I had about 10 projects open. I created a new project group. I told it that the new project group should hold a project and all subprojects, and I chose the project. It was one of the projects that I already had open. The new project group was created and it looks fine, but I can't figure out how to get back to my original list of projects. If I select Project Group > (none), no projects are listed. Ok, so maybe I need to reopen those projects. I opened one project, switched to my new project group, then switched back to "(none)" and my opened project was gone. Ok, so maybe I needed to create a named project group to hold my other projects. I did that and it seemed to work. Meanwhile, one of the projects from my original list was building and deploying, and it finally completed and started running while I was doing all the above. It's quite weird that NetBeans still knew about that project even though it wasn't open anywhere at the time.
(In reply to comment #0) > maybe I needed to create a named project group to hold my other projects. Yes. > It's quite weird that NetBeans still > knew about that project even though it wasn't open anywhere at the time. The list of open projects is just a convenience for what to show in the Projects tab. You can do most operations just as well on a closed project if you, say, have a file from it open.
Maybe it would be appropriate to add a warning when you create a new project group if you're not in an existing project group - "All open projects will be closed", or something like that? Ditto when switching to another project group with a project open in the "Project Group (none)" view.
(In reply to comment #2) > Maybe it would be appropriate to add a warning when you create a new > project group if you're not in an existing project group - "All open > projects will be closed", or something like that? Yes, that would make sense I think. Can be added pretty easily. > Ditto when switching > to another project group with a project open in the "Project Group (none)" > view. That is the same thing as not having a project group open.
Adding warning: core-main #06092956385e
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201012090001* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/06092956385e User: Jesse Glick <jglick@netbeans.org> Log: #192899: projects disappear when creating project group