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I've got an NB 4.0 project on my Win XP Pro JDK 5.0 desktop and would like to edit it (sources, ant script, and some resources) on another Win XP Pro JDK 5.0 machine on the LAN (my laptop). Can anybody suggest the correct way to do this? On the laptop if I try to open the existing project on the shared network drive (e.g. \\Carl2\d) the NB file dialog show no contents (no directories or file) on the drive. I suspect this is a limitation of J2SE 5.0. If I map the project parent directory (containing source, resources, and the NB project directory) to a drive letter, then I can see the files but it complains that it cannot resolve the references to the source directories. If I try to resolve the references, NB hangs hard using no cpu cycles. The resolve Reference Problems window does not get repainted. The only way to proceed is to kill the process.
UNC paths do not work yet; will fix later. See issue #46813 for details. In the meantime you should be able to use mapped drive letters. Re. resolving references to source directories: if the source directories were using relative paths to begin with, there would be no need to do so, but this will be necessary in case you were using external source directories, as the paths might be different on the new machine. Re. hang: never heard of such a hang, but if you can reproduce, please reopen and attach (1) your messages.log file for background information, (2) a thread dump of the hung IDE, obtainable using nb.exe (not netbeans.exe) and pressing Ctrl-Break in the console window and then copy-pasting into a text file. If we can see the thread dump, we might be able to fix the problem and/or suggest a workaround. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 46813 ***
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