How do I refresh Netbeans workspace?

Question

In Eclipse, there is something called refresh workspace or F5 that refreshes the files, to make sure to pick-up any files that are changed outside eclipse.

How do i do that in Netbeans ? I am using 6.9.1 for PHP/Java development?

I don't see any refresh nor F5 works?

any hints? any plugins??

Answer 1

Source -> Scan For External Changes

Answer 2

I made it like below ,

Right click on the folder (e.g webpages) --> Refresh

in my netbeans 6.9

Answer 3

I use netbeans deploying php projects.

Source->Scan for External Changes

The files in the projects will be refreshed or synchronized with the windows file system.

Answer 4

For Netbeans-IDE 7.2 and above

Go To Tools->Options->Miscellaneous->Files and uncheck Enable-auto-scanning of source. Then it will give an option like Refresh Folder.

You can refresh the folder or whole workspace.

Answer 5

I think below is best Answer for that. While Scan for External Changes takes a while.

Instead.

Tools->Options->Files and uncheck Enable-auto-scanning of source. Then it will give an option like Refresh Folder.

This is cool against scanning whole project to see changes of one folder.

Answer 6

Never Mind, found ScanOnDemand plugin and also there is source-->Scan for External Changes menu.