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[jira] [Created] (NETBEANS-514) Clear netbeans cache

Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva created NETBEANS-514:
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             Summary: Clear netbeans cache
                 Key: NETBEANS-514
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-514
             Project: NetBeans
          Issue Type: Improvement
    Affects Versions: 8.2, 9.0, Next
            Reporter: Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva


As discussed in the dev mailing list, it would be a nice feature if there was an easy and safe way to purge netbeans cache inside the ide. Either by an user action or preferably when the ide opens or exit.

After some years of usage, the netbeans cache might grow to consume a lot of disk space, most of it is very old useless data.

Further, when the cache gets somehow corrupted, the median user has simply no way to fix it.

Also, the cache and configurations file are very hidden from the user interaction. In windows, they are located inside the C:\Users\<your-user>\AppData\Local\Netbeans and C:\Users\<your-user>\AppData\Roaming\Netbeans folders, considering that AppData is a hidden folder. It would be nice if it was located in a place more accessible to the median user.



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