If I understand correctly, background scanning of projects is to make sure that your latest changes to a class or interface don't break your whole project.
For example, you delete something from an abstract class that is required by an interface. NetBeans will scan the project and then tell you that some of the subclasses of the abstract class now have compilation errors. On my poor old Gateway computer (NetBeans 8.2 under Windows 8.2), checking for external changes became such a pain in the neck I disabled it. But background scanning of projects still worked pretty well, aside from the occasional glitch. As for Pause I/O Checks, I don't know. Al On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 3:53 PM Bilu <albi...@gmail.com> wrote: > doesn't seems to be at startup only. its start also on projects > openning/closure and randomly sometimes. i guess its the process to index > source files for features like Code completion. > > Is there a way to stop it? > > And last what is the purpose of Pause I/O Checks action? > > thanks for the reply > Le 29/03/2021 à 19:28, Geertjan Wielenga a écrit : > > Background scanning is at startup only, ideally. > > Gj > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 6:48 PM Bilu <albi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Can anyone help me disambiguate this please? >> Le 27/03/2021 à 00:17, Bilu a écrit : >> >> Hello, >> >> What is the difference between Background Scanning of projects and >> Checking for external changes? >> >> After reading a bit on the internet i understood that: >> >> - Checking for external changes: Is a process to keep files updated >> when they are modified externally to the Netbeans IDE and can be disabled >> with Tools -> Options -> Miscellaneous -> Files -> Enable auto-scanning of >> sources without drawbacks. >> - But what about Background Scanning of projects, what is it? and can >> it be disabled without affecting the IDE features? >> - More over what is the Pause I/O Checks action does exactly? >> >> >> -- Alonso del Arte Author at SmashWords.com <https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/AlonsoDelarte> Musician at ReverbNation.com <http://www.reverbnation.com/alonsodelarte>
