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nasonfish
nasonfish

Reputation: 455

NetBeans giving error saying a project was deleted when it was never opened

I've just cloned a project from a GitHub repository and proceeded to attempt to open the project in NetBeans, using the "Import Project from existing sources" option, but I was stopped by an error telling me that a project was already managing that folder.

the error can be seen here http://puu.sh/2v8ED

Project folder is managed by a project Craftys.
Instead of creating a new project just open it. If by a chance you just deleted the project Craftys than restart the IDE to reuse the folder.

I do not have a project named Craftys in my project list, nor have I ever.

This project uses Maven, and the word "Craftys" as opposed to Craftys2 (the name of the folder) seems to come from the pom.xml.

When I remove the pom.xml from the base directory, the project opens, but then I cannot create a pom.xml, so all the dependencies' usages give errors.

So, my question is, How would I import this existing project while still allowing it to use maven? I've searched around and have not found any others with this same issue, and I'm confused on what I should do.

Here's a link to a similar project that I've been having the same issue with.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 135

Answers (1)

Perception
Perception

Reputation: 80598

Forget about "Import Project from Existing Sources". These are Netbeans (enabled) projects already, just open them as the error message explicitly stated to do (File->Open, then browse to the project location).

Netbeans - Open Dialog

Upvotes: 2

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