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This bug was originally marked as duplicate of bug 230419, that is already resolved. This bug is still valid, so this seems to be another bug, but it might be related. Build: NetBeans IDE 8.2 (Build 201705191307) VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM, 25.121-b13, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment, 1.8.0_121-b13 OS: Windows 7 User Comments: GUEST: When Netbeans starts up, it spends too much time "Background scanning of projects". You can't stop it... you simply have to wait. Stacktrace: org.openide.filesystems.FSException: Folder PDF already exists in C:\Users\Skunk\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\8.2\config (C:\Users\Skunk\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\8.2\config\Loaders\application\PDF). at org.openide.filesystems.LocalFileSystem.createFolder(LocalFileSystem.java:202) at org.openide.filesystems.LocalFileSystem$Impl.createFolder(LocalFileSystem.java:569) at org.openide.filesystems.AbstractFileObject.createFolder(AbstractFileObject.java:425) at org.openide.filesystems.FileUtil.createFolder(FileUtil.java:726) at org.openide.filesystems.MultiFileObject.createFolder(MultiFileObject.java:1114) at org.openide.filesystems.FileUtil.createFolder(FileUtil.java:726)
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