How to remove projects from the Recent Projects list in the Start Page?

configuration preferences netbeans-7.1
Nick Rolando picture Nick Rolando · Apr 8, 2012 · Viewed 12.6k times · Source

I started a new Enterprise Application project in Netbeans 7.1.1 and then later deleted the 3 projects ([project], [project]-war, [project]-ejb) from the projects window in the IDE, by right clicking them and selecting Delete, and also checking "[Delete all source files in folder on hard disk]", but it did not remove the projects from my Recent Projects in the Start Page.

I've searched through google, and most solutions are for netbeans 6.x and don't work for my version. These solutions say to find the file ./config/Preferences/org/netbeans/modules/projectui.properties from the install folder and remove them there. I have been unable to find this or a similar file, and haven't been able to do it from IDE itself either. How can I remove these Recent Projects? Does anyone know of a solution?

Answer

Belakor picture Belakor · Jun 2, 2012

You should be able to find the projectui.properties file in:

Unix

 ~/.netbeans/<netbeans-version>/config/Preferences/org/netbeans/modules/projectui.propertie‌​s

Mac OS X [Absolute Path]

/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/NetBeans/<netbeans-version>/config/Preferences/org/netbeans/modules‌​/projectui.propertie‌​s

Windows

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\<netbeans-version>\config\Preferences\org\netbeans\modules\projectui.propertie‌​s

Remember changes will be applied only on the specific NetBeans version for the specific user.

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