How to loose all your payara installations in one shot...

[roberto-cisternino]

Using the latest Netbeans 19 I tried to install the latest Payara server and after selecting the root folder c:/Servers/payara I expected the install process will create a new folder payara-6.2023.8 but I obtained a completely different result... all my payara previous folder and subfolders (all my payara server installations) were deleted... no wiped for ever !!!
This behaviour is crazy and really dangerous, nothing that one can expect from NetBeans.

A disaster !!!!!!!

[mbien]

i can't reproduce this.

when I tried to overwrite a non-empty folder it backed it up, the code for that is here:

netbeans/enterprise/payara.common/src/org/netbeans/modules/payara/common/wizards/Retriever.java

Lines 480 to 499 in f75da6e

	private File backupInstallDir(File installDir) throws IOException {
	if(installDir.exists()) {
	File parent = installDir.getParentFile();
	String tempName = installDir.getName();
	for(int i = 1; i < 100; i++) {
	File target = new File(parent, tempName + i);
	if(!target.exists()) {
	if(!installDir.renameTo(target)) {
	throw new IOException(NbBundle.getMessage(Retriever.class,
	installDir.isDirectory() ? "ERR_FolderCreationFailed" : "ERR_FileCreationFailed", // NOI18N
	installDir.getAbsolutePath()));
	}
	return target;
	}
	}
	throw new IOException(NbBundle.getMessage(
	Retriever.class, "ERR_TooManyBackups", installDir.getAbsolutePath())); // NOI18N
	}
	return null;
	}

[roberto-cisternino]

Well, in my case, in the payara root where all my different version were installed I found the new version but all the other versions were wiped (non simply canceled)

[roberto-cisternino]

The first attempt I selected c:/payara but that was not a valid folder according to Netebans... so I understood that I needed to provide a new folder under it e,g, payara-6.20023.8 and this worked out, but all c:/payara content desappeared except the new sub folder.