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Visual Studio Code unsaved files location

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00:00 Visual Studio Code Unsaved Files Location
00:15 Accepted Answer Score 71
00:47 Answer 2 Score 34
00:57 Answer 3 Score 23
01:17 Answer 4 Score 1
01:28 Thank you

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 71


The Microsoft help file indicates that the settings are stored in the folder:

Windows - %APPDATA%\Code\User\

For me this translated to:

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Code\

In this folder I located a Backups folder, this folder contained the raw data for my document. This appears to be grouped by date stored as a UNIX timestamp.

VS Code cached document location



ANSWER 2

Score 34


For Linux users they are found at ~/.config/Code/Backups.



ANSWER 3

Score 23


For Visual Studio Code on macOS, these files are found at:

~/Library/Application Support/Code/Backups

Insiders on macOS:

~/Library/Application Support/Code - Insiders/Backups

OSS on macOS:

~/Library/Application Support/Code - OSS/Backups


ANSWER 4

Score 1


If you use scoop on Windows to manage your (portable) vscode installation, the backup path you're looking for is

%USERPROFILE%\scoop\persist\vscode-portable\data\user-data\backups