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Steps to reproduce: 1. create a new project 2. mount a filesystem that contains a web application (Note that this auto-imports jar files and creates the appropriate links on the projects tab for the document root, classes and so on) 3. set filesystem to read-only. Note that the project tab is unchanged. 4. switch to a different project 5. switch back to the new project On the project tab, you can no longer see the document root. The top-level folder's name has changed so that special characters are URL-escaped. If you unmount the filesystems, the auto-imported jar files do not un-mount (like they would normally). I'm not sure how this is supposed to work, but I'm clearly not getting enough feedback from NetBeans if I'm doing something wrong.
futher info: It appears that if you delete and recreate the link in the Project tab, it will not show up as a web project but rather as an ordinary folder, unless you (1) set the file system to read-write, and (2) switch to another project and switch back.
Will be fixed when the new Projects infrastructure is in place.
Set target milestone to TBD
Changing milestone to 4.0. This bugs needs to be addressed by project infrastructure and new user view. It also looks similar to Issue 29675
This functionality has been obsoleted by the new Projects infrastructure, closing as WONTFIX.