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Zack
Zack

Reputation: 139

Visual Studio: Is it safe to delete "My code snippets" folders?

After installing Visual Studio 2019 on my windows machine I discovered a new subfolder named "Visual Studio 2019" under my home folder -C:\Users\zack. inside that vs folder there are three subfolders: Templetes\ItemTemplets, Templates\ProjectTemplets and Code Snippets. They have some other subfolders to them, but no files.

I don't know what was supposed to be stored there. I save my coding projects under C:\Projects and my libraries under C:\SDK. Why shouldn't I delete C:\Users\zack\Visual Studio 2019?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 283

Answers (1)

JG in SD
JG in SD

Reputation: 5607

If you create custom code snippets (or download any from the Internet) you can place the files containing those there. I have been creating my own snippets for a while and then when I update my version of Visual Studio, I just need to copy the folder from the older version to the newer version.

It should be safe to delete the folder if you have never created any personal snippets. It wouldn't surprise me though if an update to your Visual Studio install brought it back.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/userdefinedsnippets

Upvotes: 1

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