How to recover unsaved file (Visual Studio Code)?

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my VSC crash without saving how to get back the code ? already tested appdata\roaming\code\backup i dont found the file

https://superuser.com/questions/1225368/visual-studio-code-unsaved-files-location — Joep van Steen, Oct 18 '22 at 14:29

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 07 '23 at 17:30

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You can recover you projects from the VSCode cache. In Linux it is located under /home/USER/.config/Code/User/History/ and under Windows it is /Users/USER/AppData/Roaming/Code/User/History/. Each file has a directory and in each directory there are different versions of the same file.

answered Feb 07 '23 at 17:30

Trigus

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You saved lots of my time. Thank you. – Rohit Sawai Feb 11 '23 at 15:43

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '20 at 09:05

If you don't have backups, look in the Recycle Bin for possibly finding a deleted version of the file.

You could also set Windows Explorer to show hidden files and look in the folder where the file was last located. You may find there a version of it with a mangled name.

Look also in the temporary files folder (if in doubt run in the Command Prompt the command set TEMP).

How to recover unsaved file (Visual Studio Code)?

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