Hello,

This issue has happened on NetBeans 7.1 (all automatic updates until June 14th) on Windows 7 x64 with Java 1.7.5 when working with a Java SE project.

Be carefully when testing this issue (see below).

The project folder of the Java project was c:\Users\Jens\Java\Outlook.

I wanted to move the project one level down into itself, using the same folder name. That is, requested structure was c:\Users\Jens\Java\Outlook\Outlook

I started the command Move Project (Projects Tab, right click on the project, 'Move...'). I entered the new Project location as written above (the desired subfolder has not existed so far) and clicked on the 'Move' button.

A dialog like 'Moving project' appears. This dialog hangs and nothing visible happens anymore. (I have a solid state disk, that is, I do not hear disk drive activity.)

When having a look at my disk drive I realized that NetBeans started to put endless subfolders into the project folder (c:\Users\Jens\Java\Outlook\Outlook\Outlook\Outlook\Outlook....)

I killed NetBeans using the task manager.

But in the time I am waiting NetBeans has already created that many subfolders that the path exceeds the maximum path length of Windows 7 so that it was no longer possible to just delete the up most folder.

I needed to write a small Java application which moves the second folder into a working folder, delete the first folder and iterates this until all folders could be deleted  (deleted more than 200 subfolders...).

Hope this is reproducible, I do not want to repeat this, as you can imagine...

Feel free to contact me in case of further questions.

Kind regards

Jens