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I'm running Netbeans 7.2 beta and have the following problem (which did NOT occur in NB 7.1). When I right-click the 'Home' folder in the Favorites window, a NullPointerException is thrown. For info: my Home folder is on a network share (i.e. \\server\some\path). Here's the nullpointer I get: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.netbeans.modules.masterfs.filebasedfs.fileobjects.FolderObj.getFileObject(FolderObj.java:126) at org.netbeans.modules.project.ant.AntBasedProjectFactorySingleton.loadProject(AntBasedProjectFactorySingleton.java:229) at org.netbeans.api.project.ProjectManager.createProject(ProjectManager.java:365) at org.netbeans.api.project.ProjectManager.access$300(ProjectManager.java:85) at org.netbeans.api.project.ProjectManager$2.run(ProjectManager.java:286) at org.netbeans.api.project.ProjectManager$2.run(ProjectManager.java:233) at org.openide.util.Mutex.readAccess(Mutex.java:332) at org.netbeans.api.project.ProjectManager.findProject(ProjectManager.java:233) at org.netbeans.modules.projectapi.SimpleFileOwnerQueryImplementation.getOwner(SimpleFileOwnerQueryImplementation.java:127) at org.netbeans.api.project.FileOwnerQuery.getOwner(FileOwnerQuery.java:104) at org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.actions.ActionsUtil.getProjectsFromLookup(ActionsUtil.java:101) at org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.actions.NewFile.fillSubMenu(NewFile.java:228) at org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.actions.NewFile$WithSubMenu$DynaMenu.getMenuPresenters(NewFile.java:410) at org.netbeans.modules.openide.awt.DefaultAWTBridge.convertComponents(DefaultAWTBridge.java:120) at org.openide.util.Utilities.actionsToPopup(Utilities.java:2774) at org.openide.util.Utilities.actionsToPopup(Utilities.java:2850) at org.openide.explorer.view.TreeView.createPopup(TreeView.java:1058) at org.openide.explorer.view.TreeView$PopupAdapter.showPopup(TreeView.java:1554) at org.openide.awt.MouseUtils$PopupMouseAdapter.maybePopup(MouseUtils.java:189) at org.openide.awt.MouseUtils$PopupMouseAdapter.mouseReleased(MouseUtils.java:184) at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(AWTEventMulticaster.java:273) at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(AWTEventMulticaster.java:272) at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(AWTEventMulticaster.java:272) at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6289) at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3267) at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6054) at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2041) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4652) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2099) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4482) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4577) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4238) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4168) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2085) at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2478) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4482) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:644) at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(EventQueue.java:85) at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:603) at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:601) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87) at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:98) at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:617) at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:615) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:614) at org.netbeans.core.TimableEventQueue.dispatchEvent(TimableEventQueue.java:158) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161) [catch] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 207060 ***