Netbeans endlessly “Background scanning of projects”

Question

There seem to be similar questions but not on the same versions.

Netbeans has been "Background scanning of projects..." for hours now (everything is newly installed) and I don't get anything in the predictive text nor Navigator. Both just show "Please Wait"

Is there something I can do here or is this a known issue?

OSX: 10.10.2
Netbeans: 8.0.2
Java: java version "1.8.0_31"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_31-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.31-b07, mixed mode)
Project Language: PHP

Answer 1

You might try to clear the Netbeans cache. It should (don't know the location in OSX) be located in

$your_user_directory/.netbeans/var/cache

To check if it might be related to some other settings try to start netbeans with a clear settings directory

netbeans --userdir <point_to_some_temporary_directory>