Filesystems Settings


Filesystems Settings lists all mounted file systems. You can customize the appearance and behavior of file systems that are currently mounted - local directories as well as JAR and ZIP archives. If a new file system is added to the Explorer, it automatically appears as one of the items in the Filesystems Settings tree. You can use the contextual menu on the Filesystems Settings to add new file systems and re-order current file systems. See Filesystems for more information.

On the property sheet, you can hide file systems or make them read-only. Under the Capabilities tab on the property sheet, you can disable the IDE from performing certain tasks on the file system (searching for sources to compile, searching for classes to execute, searching for classes and sources to debug and searching for HTML pages with documentation). These properties are of particular interest if you want to mount the Java 2 SDK itself and debug it. You can set the compile property on the SDK file system to False to prevent the IDE from trying to compile it.

Tip: Capabilities settings apply to entire file systems. However, if you would like to keep individual sources in a file system from being accidentally compiled, executed, or debugged, you can change the source's Compiler, Executor, or Debugger property (under the Execution tab of its property sheet) to (do not ...) to accomplish this.


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