regarding my post from Microsoft Forum Support I was referred to this page hoping that someone can help me.
Question: Is someone here who can explain how it's possible to rename the folder ".vscode" in ".Visual Studio Code" so that the VSCode Editor works?
For clarification: I don't mean renaming it via Windows Explorer! I mean to rename the Directory (or Folder) from .vscode To .Visual Studio Code !
Know what I mean? I think it has something to do inside the Settings of VS Code.
Thanks in advance
Mike (Germany)
You could create a symlink from ".Visual Studio Code" to .vscode. That would give you a .Visual Studio Code folder in your workspace without breaking the way VSCode works.
But you'll still have a .vscode folder as well. I don't know if that achieves what you hope to accomplish or not. If you're on Windows you could set .vscode as hidden if you like, so you won't see it (unless your system is setup to show hidden files/folders).
Can you explain what you hope to accomplish by using a different name for the .vscode folder?
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I have small problem with VSCode folder, that opened by default.
Problem description: I start new instance of VSCode (trough File->New Window), and then if I choose File->Open Folder it opens dialog with my Windows user folder as starting point (C:\Users\MyUser)
Question: How can I change that folder in settings (if it possible)? So by default it will show as start point for example D:\development\ ?
At the time I write this answer, this is not possible. There are two problems on Windows, and one problem on Mac and Linux:
VS Code does not provide a default path to the file dialog 1. It does remember the last folder that you opened a file in, but that path cannot be used as a default because it is overwritten constantly.
On Windows only, Electron ignores the default path when creating a file dialog if the default path is a directory 2.
An extension also cannot solve this, because extensions are not allowed to modify the File menu 3.
I think the best option at this point is to pin a folder to the Quick Access area in Windows Explorer, as suggested in a comment, or to put an actual shortcut in the user profile folder.
Workspaces and File > Open Recent may also be helpful if you often open the same folders.
Your main problem is that you are unable to open your specific folder in VScode.
To solve that you can simply open the terminal/cmd in that specific window by just typing cmd in your search bar or just by pressing shift+right-click in that folder.
Now your cmd is open and you just have to type "code ." in the cmd and press enter to open the current folder in your VSCode.
In case that code . doesn't work for you then you have to add the Vscode in the environment variables of your windows.
Visual Studio doesn't provide a specific feature to open a specific path. But there is a solution to your problem. You are saying that you want D:\develpment as a default when you open VS Code. You can go to that specific directory or create shortcut to desktop then click right click on that folder and then click on open with code. If you didnot see open with code then reinstall your VS code and check on open with code when you are reinstalling VS Code.
make a shortcut on the desktop for vscode and then modify it and add the folder after the .exe command. This will default open that folder when you double click on it.
Visual Studio Code can be installed in two ways - User setup and System setup. I strongly believe you have User setup installed in your PC. Try re-installing it System-wide. That should probably fix your problem.
For more information: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/windows#_user-setup-versus-system-setup
PS: A lot more information is needed, you can share a screenshot of the window and elaborate more on it.
I deleted a folder in Visual Studio Code to recreate it. But each time it recovers all files whereas I just want to create a new empty folder with same name.
This is a common issue that I am also facing for more then a year now and I am unable to find an open issue about this on Github. Every issue related to this that is opened gets closed because the developers are unable to find the source of the problem.
One way I could sometimes replicate the issue is to:
Open the project folder in Windows Explorer
Search for something inside VSCode that is contained in the folder
you are going to delete.
Try to delete the folder in VSCode.
Folder is not deleted.
Clearing the search after does not solve the issue. Most of the times I have to close and reopen VSCode.
Another ridiculous part is that the VSCode sends the file to the OS Trash and you are unable to undo the deletion when it works (CRTL + Z). VSCode is being pushed to the community by many developers but is really an infant editing tool that is terrible, the only amazing part of it is the huge ammount of plugins.
This is a long lasting bug that occurs ALL THE TIME with me. I know this is not a valid answer, but it's what I know about this problem this far.
i had the same problem. But works turn off malwarebytes. Maybe another antivirus is blocking to delete folders to, try this.
Try running Visual Studio in Administrator mode. It worked for me.
It took 6 hours to find out that.... it can be deleted by VsCode file explorer, if i try to delete it manually it juggles with admin permission and user permission back and fourth.
Just delete the folder from VSCODE file explorer from the left menu.
I just restart my mac and everything went well after that 🤞
i had the same problem. I go to Terminal and turn off all powershell,a voala I finally can delete folder from VS explorer.
I have a issue related with the files opened in my Visual Studio Code.
In my team we can edit the same file (shared in the intranet) and I want to know when the file was updated.
Exist a way to detect this in Visual Studio Code?
Thanks in advance.
maybe it will be added in some day, look here and vote if you want it to be add: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/23107
javascript snippets are placed in a folder named appdata\roaming\code\user\ (on windows PC ). How do I change that folder? Would like to place visual studio code snippets in a onedrive shared folder.
thanks,
I don't think you can change the snippets folder, but you could move your folder to OneDrive and then make a symlink in its place.
move "C:\Users\<user>\appdata\roaming\code\user\" "C:\Users\<user>\OneDrive\code\"
mklink /d "C:\Users\<user>\appdata\roaming\code\user\" "C:\Users\<user>\OneDrive\code\user\"
I installed notepad++ on Windows7. I installed QuickText into notepad++. I add my custom snippets into QuickText and while notepad is open, the snippets work fine. As soon as I close notepad and open it again, the snippets are gone. Has anyone else had this problem, it should be an easy fix? They are not persisting or sticking.
Anyone know how to fix this? Any ideas?
Haven't used Quicktext but it looks like it is no longer under development.
From what I can tell FingerText is similar, and hopefully should be able to do what you are after.
The complete answer lies in a combination of Nick's and Jrod's answers.
If you create the a Config folder in the C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\ (or C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins\ if you installed it to that folder) and then place the QuickText.ini file within that folder you will notice many default "snippits" show up.
Now in order for you to save your "snippits" if you are in Windows 7 or Vista (which will save to the QuickText.ini file) you must run Notepad++ as Administrator.
As a side note the snippits save fine with in Linux if you install Notepad++ through Wine.
This issue is caused by administrative privileges. You need to run notepad++ as an administrator or it will fail silently.
You must copy QuickText.ini to folder c:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\Config\ (I created this folder itself)
This page help me
Sorry for my badly english. Your problem is in inslall. Correct install:
Copy to folder plugins all files except one (quicktext.ini).
In such directory create new folder config.
Copy quicktext.ini into it.
After such installation snippets works correctly.