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During a long search (thousands of matches, hundreds of matching files), I pressed the Modify Search button (before the search finished) and started a new search. The Search Results window displayed message "Finishing previous search..." and then an exception window appeared: java.lang.NullPointerException at ~.search.ResultView.updateObjectsCount(line:818) at ~.search.ResultView.access$100(line:67) [catch] at ~.search.ResultView$1.run(ResultView.java:804) at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209) at ... System info: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 200701151900) 1.5.0_11; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.5.0_11-b03 Windows 2003 version 5.2 running on x86 en_US (nb); Cp1252
Accepted.
This is not reproducible for me, seems to be intermittent.
This has occurred again to our tester and reported as issue #108289. It was fixed just a couple of days ago so the fix will not go to NB 6.0 Beta 1 but only to Beta 2. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 108289 ***