This tutorial explains how to recover and restore the items.

Netbeans supports and maintains the file actions in local history. You can restore deleted files and directories, but not a project

How to recover deleted files in Netbeans?

To restore the deleted file, Please follow the below steps

  • Select the Left side Files tab
  • Select the parent folder, right-click on it
  • It shows the context menu
  • Click the Local History option and select Restore Deleted
  • It reverts the deleted file

How to restore deleted folders in Netbeans?

To restore the deleted folder, Please follow the below steps. You can not restore the deleted folder directly using the Restore deleted option

  • Select the Left side tree view, Click the Files tab
  • Select the parent folder, Recreate the same folder name, right-click on it
  • It shows the context menu
  • Click the Local History option and select Restore Deleted
  • It asks for a list of files deleted and selects the files you want to revert
  • It reverts the deleted files to a Folder
  • Repeat the same above steps for each folder in the nested folder structure.

How to restore deleted projects in Netbeans?

Netbeans does not support recovering deleted projects. you can use OS tools to recover the deleted folders or projects.

It only maintains the local history of files in a project, The Entire project is not versioned in local history, hence it is not possible to recover deleted projects.