Weirdly, settings not applying in Visual Studios Code

Question

I'm learning java currently, and I have downloaded VS code with the Red Hat java extension pack. My problem is, modifications to the settings GUI or settings.json do not seem to apply.

I have 2 problems:

• .class files not being hidden in the directory / explorer

• I want new files made to automatically be java instead of plain text.

What I've done: Googled it, and made changes to settings. However, nothings changed, even after a restart.

My settings for user:

My settings for workspace:

Does anyone know what is going on and how to fix this? Thanks!!!

Answer 1

Try

"files.exclude" : {
  **/*.class": true    // note the * ti include
}

Note the * prior to .class to indicate any amount of characters. You were excluding file names like .class literally and not something.class.