Comments on: Putting Netbeans AppData in the Right Place

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:53:42 +0000

You are very welcome!

By: Cuidas

Cuidas — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:37:38 +0000

BIG BIG THANK YOU!

I have been searching a lot to change the home path of netbeans. Now my Netbeans is portable and runs from a stick!

Hint: the command line switch also handles relative paths! (i.e. -J-Duser.home=../userdir)

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:46:39 +0000

That’s a good question. I’m not sure, but I have a couple things to try.

First, try escaping the spaces with a backslash like this:
C:/Documents\ and\ Settings/. Netbeans seems to like Unix path syntax, so that might work. If it doesn’t, try enclosing the path in single quotes. I’m not sure how Netbeans deals with nested quotes in its conf file, but it’s worth a shot.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:15:49 +0000

Great stuff – I have a profile ‘limit’ of 30meg in my User directory, however the Local Settings / AppData folder (ironically also within the User directory) in unlimited.

Quick question for you though – I’m on Windows XP and whilst most of this is still quite applicable there are spaces in the directory, i.e. C:/Documents and Settings/{username}/Local Settings/Application Data/.

Suggestions for how to cater for these spaces in the .conf file?