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Created attachment 134964 [details] screenshot of bug I previously requested bug #96308 to be fixed, and was pleased to notice that this feature is now functional in 7.3 . Thanks Alexander Simon! However there is a fairly serious bug; drag and dropping a folder into itself causes an infinite nested structure (see screenshot, #1). It's "turtles all the way down". Netbeans doesn't immediately crash, however, when Netbeans is restarted and the project is reopened, Netbeans hangs. I found out that the configurations.xml of my project had exploded to 45MB. When opened in text editor, it shows the recursive nesting of the affected folder (titled "workspace" in my example). See screenshot, #2. It does actually stop at a certain depth (probably due to hardcoded recursion limit) and as such prevented the project xml file from becoming infinitely large and/or fully corrupted (nice example where defensive coding pays off!). I was able to recover my project file by manually deleting the offending xml code (although I first had to find a text editor that could handle large files!). Bug & fix should be obvious. Thanks!
fixed, change set: http://hg.netbeans.org/cnd-main/rev/a909886af933
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201305282301* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/a909886af933 User: Alexander Simon <alexvsimon@netbeans.org> Log: fixed Bug #230338 drag 'n dropping logical folder into itself causes (almost) infinite tree structure