Netbeans maven project reverting to Java project on restart of netbeans - maven

I am using Netbeans 8.2 (although this problem has been ongoing in previous versions). I can create a maven project, cut and past a previous one into that project, and then build the project and run it no problem.
When I shut down netbeans though, the maven project changes to a java project and the only fix I can find is to create a new maven project and repeat the cut and save.
There must be a better solution to this, if anyone has had a similar issue and fixed it please let me know!
Any help much appreciated,
Kris.

you are probably copying some files that make the folder recognisable as a Java project. So likely have some build.xml in the base folder and/or some xml files in nbproject/ subfolder that are java project specific. Just copy only the source files you have.

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