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AI-generatedNetBeans upgrade results in default settings after userdir incompatibility
Symptom After a NetBeans major version upgrade, the IDE may launch with default settings or fail to start when it detects that the existing userdir is incompatible with the new release. The upgrade process does not automatically create a backup of the userdir, and there is no built‑in prompt that offers to restore the previous configuration if the new versio
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