VSCode Live Server Extension infinitley loading on local host

Question

Recently my live server extension on VSCode stopped working. I do not know why, but now when hitting the go-live button, I am stuck infinitely loading my localhost on port 5500. I have tried reinstalling the extension, right-clicking my index.html file and going live, and some other various stuff but nothing has worked. For some reason, it did work once out of nowhere but stopped working again when I restarted my computer. Anything helps!

Answer 1

I solved this by changing the location of my code (and consequently live server location) to my C drive (internal SSD) instead of the D drive (additional hard drive inside my laptop). I noticed a lot of disk reading and writing sounds coming from my laptop as the server was loading, so I guessed correctly the location might be to blame.

Answer 2

Turns out cypress just stopped liking port 5500 but now everything works fine going off of 8080.