Hey Laszlo, did any updates around the orphaned "cache" get made?  I see it
showing up again in NB 16 so assume note.

Should I create an issue on this?

Eric Bresie
[email protected]


On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 10:13 AM Eric Bresie <[email protected]> wrote:

> So then a manual workaround is to change the permissions on
> %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Netbeans\Cache to be not just read only and
> then running it should fix it then?
>
> I like the idea of the enhancements...are further follow-up enhancements
> in work?
>
>
> Eric Bresie
> [email protected]
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 9:02 AM Laszlo Kishalmi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> That was my "enhancement" for NB-14. The janitor module would detect
>> abandoned cache directories.
>>
>> Usually there is an <userdir parent>/netbeans-14 and <cachedir
>> parent>/netbeans-14. When the janitor encounters a directory in
>> <cachedir parent> which has no pair in <userdir parent> then it would
>> think, that cache dir is abandoned and would offer it for removal.
>>
>> My primary intent was to clean up the leftover cache directories when
>> using the Snap distribution.
>>
>> On 7/1/22 06:35, Eric Bresie wrote:
>> > Has anyone else had this problem?
>> >
>> > I've a number of versions (13 and 14) of Netbeans installed/used with a
>> > bunch of older versions since removed (i.e. 12.x and a mixture of rc for
>> > these).  When I startup I keep getting notifications that "Netbeans
>> xx.xx
>> > was last used xx days ago" with a "Remove unused data and cache
>> directories
>> > of xxx Free up xxx MB of space."  Sounds great so clicking on this goes
>> > away.  However, a little later, restart Netbeans and the same
>> notifications
>> > show up even after clicking the remove link.
>> >
>> > Eric Bresie
>> > [email protected]
>> >
>>
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