diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+/CoreComponentInterfaces/build/
+/DirectoryTree/build/
+/CoreComponents/build/
+/dist/
+/build/
+/DataModel/build/
+/MenuActions/build/
+/Logging/build/
+/FileSearch/build/
+/nbproject/private/
+/DataModel/release/modules/lib/libewf.dll
+/DataModel/release/modules/ext/Tsk_DataModel.jar
+/DataModel/release/modules/ext/sqlite-jdbc-3.6.20.jar
+/DataModel/release/modules/lib/libewf.dll
+/DataModel/release/modules/lib/libtsk_jni.dll
+/DataModel/release/modules/lib/zlib1.dll