How to change the default Netbeans 8.0.2 project directory?

netbeans, netbeans-8, php

Solution

May be this will help you

- Edit the file `C:\Users\<YourName>\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\8.2.0\config\Preferences\org\netbeans\modules\projectui\groups\<TheGroup>.properties`.

- Change the path entry to the new location.

Problem

I installed XAMPP and then Netbeans and noticed that new PHP projects default to XAMPP's `htdocs` folder. Does anyone know how to change this default folder? I tried to search google but all the first page results are related to Netbeans 7. I tried to follow the instructions from this question but I can't find the `projectui.properties` mentioned in the accepted answer. I'm on Windows 10.

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