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It has been pointed out that up to now we advice our users to use different userdir, or delete it in case user configuration goes wrong and is corrupted. This lead reviewers to opinion that if if it is not too much work, then the preferred solution is keep user preferences settings under user directory. See: http://openide.netbeans.org/tutorial/reviews/opinions_73474.html
Fixed. See issue #73474.