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This bug was originally marked as duplicate of bug 229135, that is already resolved. This bug is still valid, so this seems to be another bug, but it might be related. Build: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 20140109-e0428f98f79d) VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, 23.7-b01, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment, 1.7.0_15-b03 OS: Windows 7 User Comments: GUEST: opening the Open Project dialog and click on "look in" pulldown displays this error. rodrigorsantos: <Please provide a description of the problem or the steps to reproduce> mkroll: - Open an existing project on the program icon - Change source location with dropdown box Stacktrace: java.nio.file.InvalidPathException: Illegal char <:> at index 0: ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} at sun.nio.fs.WindowsPathParser.normalize(WindowsPathParser.java:182) at sun.nio.fs.WindowsPathParser.parse(WindowsPathParser.java:153) at sun.nio.fs.WindowsPathParser.parse(WindowsPathParser.java:77) at sun.nio.fs.WindowsPath.parse(WindowsPath.java:94) at sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystem.getPath(WindowsFileSystem.java:255) at java.io.File.toPath(File.java:2069)
Created attachment 143901 [details] stacktrace
Message Logs in the reports show that module openide.util is in version 8.31 or 8.32, which is quite old. Please update your NetBeans. Thank you for reporting. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 229135 ***