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.

Answer 2

I have the same problem in netbeans but i found solution by unselect the check from auto scan background in your netbeans IDE go to tools and then Option and select then to miscellaneous and select file tab inside miscellaneous and you will find check as "enable of auto-scanning of the source unselect that one and netbeans will be fast then i hope it will help you in fasting your IDE too

Answer 3

I was having the same problem with Netbeans 8.1, Windows 10. It was also hanging when I tried to compile and refactor. It would sometimes say 100% done yet continue background scanning for hours. I closed the project in which this was happening, and switched to a simple project and the problem went away. So I examined my code. I had class A extending class B, then class B importing class A. When I changed this, the endless looping in Ant stopped.