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Bernard commented on NETBEANS-2631:
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I can 100% confirm now that before the display of the file dialog, the desktop
is checked up to 10 times for desktop shortcuts with missing targets, and when
they were missing (or even not missing as in my initial case), then there is an
additional dialog sequence that reports the missing target, and some time later
asks to fix the shortcut. I can confirm this because after I uninstalled GIT
for Windows, which contains useful commands that subsequent programs find using
their own installation and use these commands in their own shortcuts which then
failed when GIT was uninstalled. I can only recommend after decades of IT
experience to not keep files on the desktop whenever possible because that is
where strange creatures are doing strange things. I remember I inherited a PC
from a person who left in a hurry but did not forget to copy all source code to
a huge zip file on the desktop for transfer but forgot to delete it. Then on
every start-up, and before file open dialogs, some terribly useful program
decided to unpack that huge file and locked up my PC for minutes whenever I
wanted to open a file anywhere, putting my contract at risk because I requested
a new PC while everybody knew it was working before.
So thanks for the ideas Geertjan.
I cannot forget to point out that I do not appreciate at all if any program is
doing these type of sweeping operations which are totally unrelated to the task
at hand. It just stinks.
> File Open blocked by Windows message: Windows is searching for mintty.exe
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: NETBEANS-2631
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-2631
> Project: NetBeans
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 11.0
> Reporter: Bernard
> Priority: Blocker
> Attachments: messages.log, messages.log
>
>
> I installed:
> Product Version: Apache NetBeans IDE 11.0 (Build
> incubator-netbeans-release-404-on-20190319)
> Java: 11.0.2; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 11.0.2+9-LTS
> Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 11.0.2+9-LTS
> System: Windows 7 version 6.1 running on amd64; Cp1252; en_NZ (nb)
> On installation, I let the IDE import settings from a 8.2 version.
> How I reproduce it:
> Menu|File|Open File
> And here it starts with multiple Windows dialogs:
> "Windows: Windows is searching for mintty.exe. To locate the file yourself,
> browse."
> After a while I get another Windows dialog:
> "The item mintty.exe that this shortcut refers to has been changed or moved,
> so this shortcut will no longer work properly.
> Nearest match, based on size, date and type C:\Program
> Giles\Git\usr\bin\mintty.exe
> Do you want to fix this shortcut to point to this target or do you just want
> to delete it?"
> I let it ix it.
> This sequence repeats 3 times until I eventually get the file selection
> dialog which lets me open a file.
> But it never gets fixed. Every time I use Menu|File|Open File, the sequence
> repeats, meaning I need about 10 minutes to open a file. Unfortunately I
> cannot continue using NetBeans 11 because of this bug, and I am back to 8.2
> once again. See NETBEANS-1824.
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