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vargonian
vargonian

Reputation: 3234

Visual Studio Code files.exclude setting not working

I am using Unity and trying to exclude .meta files from the file explorer sidebar. I navigated to File->Preferences->User Settings (or Workspace settings, doesn't matter), and set the contents of the file to the following:

// Place your settings in this file to overwrite default and user settings.
{
        "files.exclude": {
        "**/.meta": true
    }
}

...and saved my changes. Yet, when I click the Refresh icon or close/reopen my folder view, I am still seeing all the .meta files showing up in the left pane. Am I doing something wrong here?

Upvotes: 30

Views: 14161

Answers (4)

Nishant Kumar
Nishant Kumar

Reputation: 11

Follow this path: C:>Users>UserName>AppData>Roaming>Code>User>settings.json and remove line '**/.project':true

Upvotes: 1

Nelu
Nelu

Reputation: 18680

Check this button if you're seeing excluded files in search.

VSCode search settings

The cog button needs to be highlighted in order for files.exclude to apply.

Upvotes: 29

CPoll
CPoll

Reputation: 51

It's also worth noting that, in the search sidebar, "files to exclude" and "files excluded through settings" behave differently.

In "files to exclude", it's sufficient to write *.meta, but in "files excluded through settings" (set in the user settings file) you must write **/*.meta.

Upvotes: 5

vargonian
vargonian

Reputation: 3234

My problem was basing my pattern off of the existing ones, which excluded specific file names rather than patterns. I simply needed to add an asterisk before the file extension, i.e.

"**/*.meta"

instead of

"**/.meta"

Upvotes: 61

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