How to tell Netbeans IDE not to open previously opened projects on startup

Question

My netbeans seems to freeze every time I try to open it. It says waiting projects opened. I want to somehow clear the list of 'open projects' so that netbeans doesn't try and open them automatically on startup.

Maybe clearing the cache or something?

I'm running Netbeans 7.3 on Mac OS: X Mountain Lion

Answer 1

A little late, but I think config/Preferences/org/netbeans/modules/projectui.properties is the file you are (were?) looking for.

Mine (Netbeans 8.1 on a GNU/Linux box) is located under %my_home_dir%/.netbeans/8.1/, like:

/home/scherrer/.netbeans/8.1/config/Preferences/org/netbeans/modules/projectui.properties

I've made a test renaming this file and when I opened the IDE no project was opened.

Answer 2

Clear netbeans cache:

Clearing the cache in Netbeans will probably cause it not to load previously opened projects: Clearing Cache in NetBeans