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Netbeans Open project initial dir

Hi everybody.
My Netbeans IDE 8.1 (on WIndows 10 x64), when I click Open project button, always uses as initial dir Documents folder. I would like change it to my C:\xampp\htdocs directory.
I have already tried every suggestion found googling. Specifically, I changed %APPDATA%\NetBeans\8.1\config\Preferences\org\netbeans\modules\projectui.properties setting projectsFolder to my target but the setting is always deleted by Netbeans itself.
I even posted a topic in Netbeans forum: 30 views, 0 answers!

I just hope here there be a Netbeans user who personally knows how to do it.

I'll pray you to not waste time with Google: I already spent a lot of hours doing it without success :-(

Thank you

Mukesh Yadav

When you create new project set project folder and as of now when you created the project go to project configuration and edit the same project folder to desired;

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Marco Gasi

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Ray Paseur

@Marco: I wish so many applications had a feature that let you set the initial directory! Probably anything being written today has such a feature, but some of my old and trusty apps still start in My Documents every time.

Marco Gasi

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@Ray. Yes, I remember those old applications :-) What's surprising me is that a modern IDE such as Netbeans - yes I know you love PhpStorm, but it's a bit too expensive to me ;-) - didn't offer this settings through the option panel. I think every developer stores his projects in some specific folder and I have some doubt it could be the standard Document folder.
I think even It should be 'settable' (sorry for the bad neologism) even on a project- type basis: one for php projects, anotherone for Android projects and so on, isn't it?
Anyway, at least now I don't have to go through the directory tree anytime I open a project :-)

Marco Gasi

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Fo8und solution by myself.