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Reputation: 3515

Visual Studio creates gibberish folder

I'm using Visual Studio 2019 to develop with C#.

Sometimes Visual Studio creates a folder with a gibberish name when I build a solution, like

C:\FNTJ1nkhh1X4r0gk3geH5yIYY8=

This folder only contains the subfolder sqlite3\v1 which in turn contains the following files

If such a folder is created, it is created for one certain solution, other solutions don't show that behaviour. Deleting the folder or recreating the solution doesn't help.

To rule them out I already disabled all extensions in Visual Studio but the problem remains.

I've also compared the affected solution file with an unaffected one but didn't find something suspicious.

Has anyone else experienced this and what could be the reason?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 947

Answers (1)

Bill Tür stands with Ukraine
Bill Tür stands with Ukraine

Reputation: 3515

After @HansPassant's comment I dug a bit further and found that the folder should be located under

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Roslyn\Cache\RemoteWorkspace

Searching for this location led me to this forum post which confirms this to be a bug in Visual Studio which should be fixed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 preview 3.

Upvotes: 1

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