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netbeans crashed; please tell me there is a cache to recover from

807589Aug 20 2008 — edited Aug 22 2008
Okay. So I'm going to try to contain the boiling adrenaline fueled.... disquiet... that this issue has just caused me.

I've been using netbeans for a little over a week now because I've been handed a massive .jsp/.java/sql AJAX project that needs some modifications. The environment is perfect for it, especially with being able to run with breakpoints and a tomcat testbed for projects.

Today I finally decided, after painstakingly tracing through the 78 source files in my project, that I had learned enough about JSP and the JavaBean structure to begin adding the modifications to the original source package. I've been editing for a few hours now and I've added a couple of hundred lines of JSP that I still only am beginning to understand.

I hadn't saved, because I hadn't done anything complicated like trying to run it in the test bed or anything of the sort. But all of a sudden when I wanted to close a tag, my cursor disappeared. I began to get a little bit nervous... I began trying to click in the error window and the code 'flowchart' window. No cursor. Now I'm starting to be quite unhappy with this issue. So I try the last thing I can do without killing the window to see if it's going to respond. I move the mouse cursor over the scrollbar... It stayed a text cursor and didn't change back to an arrow.

I switched out of that desktop for a little bit (Ubuntu 8.04 with gnome, 2 desktop standard) to go vent at some of the other CIS people that I've got open chat windows with. Switch back and the window isn't repainting at all.

I really, REALLY+ do not want to have to recreate all of that work. Please tell me that there is a cache or a swapfile somewhere that I can recover this information on the one modified sourcefile from.

Now that I'm researching netbeans crashes on google, I'm seeing that it seems to have been an issue for several years, too. Are there like any plans to fix it, or patches, or am I just going to have to switch to eclipse or gvim and start transferring my modified source files to my own external tomcat instance every time that I want to test what I'm writing?

I'd say this is a pretty major bug.
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