If you have a Windows environment with server side profiles, you still have a local user profile, which is synchronized with the server during startup and shutdown. It takes the more time the more data is stored in the profile. Thus, it is helpfull to move NetBeans user dir (and cache dir) to a location outside the user profile. I suggested to let the user choose during installation and / or persist these settings in a way it can be re-used by later NetBeans versions.
Here a short excerpt of NetCat status report #7:
If you have strong opinion on requirement to set cache and user directories during installation, please add your comment to Michael Müller‘s #221351.
If you second this sugestion, please feel free to add your comment or simply vote for it.
Thanks.
I was astonished that no such option came up during installation. I have the impression it has never occurred to many that (in windows, for example) the c:\ drive might actually get filled up, or that someone might wish to limit the c:\ drive to a minimal collection of things just to avoid problems with swap file space and whatnot. There is a limit to what one can do in trying to reduce the amount of stuff dumped in a user’s directory (moving the swap file elsewhere, for example). It strikes me as rude or less-than-professional not to provide such options.
Hello Kin,
I lament there is still no such option during install. But, it is possible to start NetBeans with some command line options for different folders.
If you use Windows, you may change the properties of your shortcut and add optiones for Userdir und CacheDir, e.g.
–userdir d:\NetBeans\User –cachedir d:\NetBeans\Cache