Dear Anthony, I do see the bug again in the bug database, so probably just a temporary problem. I tried it with jdk 8 b21 but I still get this error. I do see a bit of a difference with the reported bug in the database. I select the desktop option in the file chooser and next I double click on the available short cut folder. I get the following error:
java.lang.InternalError: Unable to bind C:\Users\cdesbouvrie\Desktop\Data - Shortcut.lnk to parent at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2$4.call(Win32ShellFolder2.java:414) Complete stack trace: java.lang.InternalError: Unable to bind C:\Users\cdesbouvrie\Desktop\Data - Shortcut.lnk to parent at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2$4.call(Win32ShellFolder2.java:414) at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2$4.call(Win32ShellFolder2.java:398) at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2$ComInvoker.invoke(Win32ShellFolderManager2.java:533) at sun.awt.shell.ShellFolder.invoke(ShellFolder.java:514) at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.getIShellFolder(Win32ShellFolder2.java:398) at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.access$200(Win32ShellFolder2.java:72) at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2$16.call(Win32ShellFolder2.java:1088) at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2$16.call(Win32ShellFolder2.java:1086) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2$ComInvoker$3.run(Win32ShellFolderManager2.java:502) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) kind regards, Christiaan -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-%3CSwing-Dev%3E-%3CAWT-Dev%3E-JFileChooser%3A-Nullpointer-navigating-shortcut-folder-on-Windows-tp33133976p33146702.html Sent from the OpenJDK Swing Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.