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I switched off Netbeans while the plugins upgrade was in progress & then it has disabled everything. How do I get back everything that was available before? I've tried updating once again but it says:

Your IDE is up to date!

Probably it searches only for the few things remaining. It has become like a simple text editor :(

I don't want to lose my settings anyhow.. Using netbeans 7

EDIT:

I see that the plugins are still installed but they have been deactivated. When I try to activate them, it fails, giving out following message:

Activation failed: Not all requested modules can be enabled: [StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.ant.kit jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\java\modules\org-netbeans-modules-ant-kit.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.form.kit jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\java\modules\org-netbeans-modules-form-kit.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.versioning.system.cvss jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\ide\modules\org-netbeans-modules-versioning-system-cvss.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.hudson jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\ide\modules\org-netbeans-modules-hudson.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.websvc.restkit jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\enterprise\modules\org-netbeans-modules-websvc-restkit.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.core.kit jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\platform\modules\org-netbeans-modules-core-kit.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.web.primefaces jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\enterprise\modules\org-netbeans-modules-web-primefaces.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.apisupport.kit jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\apisupport\modules\org-netbeans-modules-apisupport-kit.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.subversion jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\ide\modules\org-netbeans-modules-subversion.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.localhistory jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\ide\modules\org-netbeans-modules-localhistory.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.spring.beans jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\java\modules\org-netbeans-modules-spring-beans.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.persistence.kit jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\java\modules\org-netbeans-modules-j2ee-persistence-kit.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.hibernate jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\java\modules\org-netbeans-modules-hibernate.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.web.jsf.kit jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\enterprise\modules\org-netbeans-modules-web-jsf-kit.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.mercurial jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\ide\modules\org-netbeans-modules-mercurial.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.ui jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\java\modules\org-netbeans-modules-debugger-jpda-ui.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.maven.kit jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\java\modules\org-netbeans-modules-maven-kit.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.bugzilla jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\ide\modules\org-netbeans-modules-bugzilla.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.web.kit jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\enterprise\modules\org-netbeans-modules-web-kit.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.java.kit jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\java\modules\org-netbeans-modules-java-kit.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.ide.branding.kit jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\nb\modules\org-netbeans-modules-ide-branding-kit.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.spellchecker.kit jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\ide\modules\org-netbeans-modules-spellchecker-kit.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.web.struts jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\enterprise\modules\org-netbeans-modules-web-struts.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.websvc.saas.kit jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\websvccommon\modules\org-netbeans-modules-websvc-saas-kit.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.db.kit jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\ide\modules\org-netbeans-modules-db-kit.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.profiler jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\profiler\modules\org-netbeans-modules-profiler.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.websvc.kit jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\enterprise\modules\org-netbeans-modules-websvc-kit.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.ide.kit jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\ide\modules\org-netbeans-modules-ide-kit.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.spring.webmvc jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\enterprise\modules\org-netbeans-modules-spring-webmvc.jar, StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.kit jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 7.0\enterprise\modules\org-netbeans-modules-j2ee-kit.jar]

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  • Could you tell us if your plugins are still enabled? Tools > Plugins > Installed (tab). Look at the Active column to see the state of the Plugins. – Jonathan Spooner Oct 03 '11 at 09:11
  • @Jonathan Spooner: please see my edit.. – Rajat Gupta Oct 03 '11 at 09:20
  • You may need to delete your .netbeans folder. This is normally located at $USER_HOME/.netbeans. Unfortunately this folder contains all your user settings as well.. – Tim Sparg Oct 03 '11 at 09:55

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The simplest way to fix this is to re-install NetBeans. I don't believe that your settings have been corrupted. So, in order to keep your settings, before you uninstall you'll need to export your settings.

  1. Open Options Dialog: Tools > Options
  2. Click Export button
  3. Choose a location and file name to use for the zip file
  4. Choose a category(s) to export

Note, that If a category is not enabled this means that you have not made any changes in that category.

If you have libraries defined and would like to save the configuration, you need to copy your build.properties file which is located in your .netbeans directory as exporting alone will not save this configuration (due to the fact that these settings should be able to be relocated on another machine and the libraries are specific to your machine). In Windows, your .netbeans directory is located in your user directory. For example, on my machine (Windows 7) this location is C:\Users\Jonathan\.netbeans.

After you've re-installed, import your settings back into the IDE and then replace the build.properties file.

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  • Already done that! :) Anyways thanks for sharing your idea about exporting the settings, will be helpful in future! – Rajat Gupta Oct 04 '11 at 05:42
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I had the same problem, after trying some thinks the following two steps solve the problem:

  1. Locate the java folder, using this question
  2. Run the netbeans from its folder, specifying the jdkhome with the result of the previous step:

~/netbeans-X.X/bin/netbeans --jdkhome /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/

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I had the same problem after upgrading from java 7 to java 8. After wasting a few minutes, I discovered that netbeans wasn't seeing the right jdkhome. I solved the problem in two steps:

  1. In the netbeans installation folder, open the file netbeans.conf which is under etc directory. As for my case /home/his-kenya/netbeans-8.1/etc/netbeans.conf
  2. Set netbeans_jdkhome to point to the absolute location of your jdk. This should be on line 57 if the file hasn't been edited before. As for my case netbeans_jdkhome="/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0/"

Restart the IDE.

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