stop checking for updates

Question

In sublime terminal (ctrl + `) every minute I got annoing lines:

Checking for updates:
    Sync Enabled: True
    Sync Timeout: 60000
    Latest Update at: Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
    Thread is: Thread-4
    Paths: [{'path': '', 'display': ''}]

It interrupt me from debuging sublime plugins.

How to disable this Checking for updates?

I tried 2 things to disable it:

1. I added line "update_check": false into /Users/maks/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/User/Preferences.sublime-settings:

   { "ignored_packages": [ "JavaScript Console", "Vintage" ], "update_check": false }

   And restarted sublime. But nothing...

2. I tried to find string 60000 in all files of sublime folder: /Users/maks/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3 But nothing good found. Maybe 60000 ms is default value.

Update

Created function to search text in packages and installed packages:

searchInSubl()
{
    cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 3/Installed\ Packages; zgrep -e $1 *.sublime-package ; cd ../Packages; grep -R -e  $1 *
}

With help of it I searched by different words: "Checking for updates", "Sync Enabled", "Sync Timeout", "60000", "Latest Update at", "Thread is", "Paths". But nothing found.

Seemingly this update is internal sublime 3 option. Don't know how to disable it...

Answer 1

Two solutions, depending on what exactly you want to accomplish.

Since I am not sure - possibly my English - so I give you two solutions.

BLOCK PACKAGE FROM UPDATING

I use Sublinter as an example.

Preferences > Package Settings > Package Control > Settings – User

... and add something like this to block package:

// Packages to not auto upgrade
    "auto_upgrade_ignore": [
        "SublimeLinter"
    ],

BLOCK SUBLIME FROM UPDATING

If you want Sublime to stop updating and you do not trust in-app update blocking solutions, just nuke 'em.

On Windows (system I use) go to:

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

... and open file named 'hosts'.

You may have to move this file onto desktop, edit it and move it back to original location, as Windows may not allow any changes to it - even, if you try as Administrator.

Then add to 'hosts' file this line of code:

127.0.0.1       localhost       www.sublimetext.com
127.0.0.1       localhost       sublimetext.com

Version with 'www' will do, as sublime sends updates from 'www.sublimetext.com' location.

Above code will prevent any connection from your machine to 'www.sublimetext.com', hence no updates anymore.

That does not apply to packages, they need option #1.

Answer 2

Since Sublime Text 3 packages are in zipped .sublime-package files, you'll need to use zgrep to search them:

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 3/Installed\ Packages
zgrep -e "Checking for updates" *.sublime-package

If nothing is found, try looking in the Packages directory:

cd ../Packages
grep -R -e "Checking for updates" *

Hopefully one of these will match a package. If so, add the package to your ignored_packages setting and restart Sublime.

If neither search works, try using other fragments of the message as your search term: "Sync Enabled", "Latest Update", etc.

Good luck!

Please Note:

This is not the same issue as this one, where setting "update_check": false in your user preferences does not stop Sublime Text 3 from displaying upgrade messages when a new build is released. This particular issue was caused by a plugin constantly printing a message to Sublime's console. As the OP commented below:

using turning off and on every single plugin, target plugin found, its name: "My Snippets" in Installed Packages folder.

Answer 3

My current version of sublime text 3 is 3083. Here how the guys solved it HERE.

Text version

Go to Preferences -> Settings-User -> and paste that line of code in the end:

"update_check": false, or "update_check": false (without last comma if it's last item in the array). After that press CTRL + S (on Windows OS) to Save file or go to File -> Save

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