Dear Brenden, Well, on my machine (Windows 10 Home 64-bit) I don't have write access to the directory of the file, but Admin does.
I assume you've looked at the effective permissions part of the file properties to check. Best regards, Peter mailto:netbe...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Monday, December 7, 2020, 5:41:57 PM, you wrote: Sorry about that, I just asked about this on Superuser and I just forgot to include the details since I had just explained them. (Yall always check Superuser every time yall get an email, right? :-) ) Yes, I don't have permission. The entire directory tree including all files is marked as "Read Only" and all the files are owned by "Administrators" (and no group set, group is "None"). The read-only bit seems to be the main problem, but I suspect that the file ownership will also figure in to there somewhere as well. Trying to edit this as text file (Gvim) doesn't allow me to change the file even with :w! And even if I run Explorer with Admin permissions it would let me change the read only status. It runs and doesn't report an error, but the read only status remains. At minimum this is really inconvenient. At worst I guess I might have to wait for a fix and then re-install. I think I'd be happier with a configuration file under my users directory, say in a .netbeans directory or something, that I owned and I could just change as needed. On 12/7/2020 9:27 AM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: Failing how? Maybe you don’t have permissions on the file? Gj On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 18:21, Brenden Towey <brendento...@gmail.com> wrote: I have a brand new 12.2 installation under Windows 10, and so far I've spent a fair amount of time trying to make changes to nebeans.conf and failing. Windows UAC doesn't seem to like your configuration file very much. I'd like to see changes to the installer to specifically permit easier editing of that file, and maybe a review to identify other files that the user might reasonably need make changes to. Corollary: does anyone know how to change netbeans.conf under windows 10? I'd appreciate the help. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
