NetBeans background scanning projects takes too long

Question

NetBeans background scanning projects takes too long. Every time when I open netbeans it scanning for ages. I used NetBeans 7.2 and it works perfecly. Now I formatted pc and rei

Answer 1

On Ubuntu 18.04 / Netbeans 10.0, I had the same problem.

• [FAIL] Deleted cache
• [FAIL] Deleted project-specific "nbproject" dir
• [FAIL] Closed the offending project (mouseover the progress bar to identify which one) --> restart NB --> create new project
• [SUCCESS] Nuked the project from the F/S --> re-cloned --> restarted NB. I also renamed the directory itself, in case there was some other cache that pointed to the old dirname.