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Allow syncing all files and folder located in ~/…/Code/User/. Some important extensions settings are there. #113774
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For instance, there is the folder named globalStorage where some extensions store their settings (color-manager). royaction
Project Manager store projects settings in ~\…\Code\User\projects.json. See alefragnani/vscode-project-manager#431.
There may also be …\Code\User\Emmet Settings\snippets.json if you set it so in
"emmet.extensionsPath": "${env:APPDATA}\\Code\\User\\Emmet Settings",Currently, it can only be handled by shanalikhan sync extension or zokugun Sync Settings not the built-in settings-sync.
Users and extensions devs are waiting for a built-in solution. A glob pattern to pick which files and folder to include would be appreciated.
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gjsjohnmurray commentedon Jan 5, 2021
/assign Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
sandy081 commentedon Jan 5, 2021
Extensions can now synchronize state in globalStorage, please file an issue against them.
Fred-Vatin commentedon Jan 5, 2021
Nice but what about other files like
…\Code\User\Emmet Settings\snippets.json?sandy081 commentedon Jan 6, 2021
How different are these from regular user snippets ?
Fred-Vatin commentedon Jan 6, 2021
https://docs.emmet.io/customization/snippets/
I personally use this by duplicating huge default emmet snippets and overriding them with customization when needed and some addition.
sandy081 commentedon Jan 6, 2021
Is it supported by an extension?
Fred-Vatin commentedon Jan 6, 2021
No, it is an emmet feature controlled by this setting
Allowing custom folder in code\user to be synched would make VSCode user environment truly…synched.
sandy081 commentedon Jan 6, 2021
I see, this is coming from built in emmet extension. At present we do not support custom user files from extensions. I would use this issue to track that feature.
[-]Allow other settings stored in code/user to be synched[/-][+]Allow syncing custom user files like emmet snippets[/+]vscode-triage-bot commentedon Jan 6, 2021
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vscode-triage-bot commentedon Feb 26, 2021
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vscode-triage-bot commentedon Mar 8, 2021
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TylerLeonhardt commentedon Mar 31, 2021
https://github.com/alefragnani/vscode-project-manager would love to see this for their projects.json's
majkinetor commentedon Jan 18, 2022
Its essential feature, this way sync is half baked.
[-]Allow syncing custom user files like emmet snippets[/-][+]Allow syncing custom user files like emmet snippets, projects manager… located in ~/…/Code/User/[/+][-]Allow syncing custom user files like emmet snippets, projects manager… located in ~/…/Code/User/[/-][+]Allow syncing all files and folder located in ~/…/Code/User/. Some important extensions settings are there.[/+]vscodenpa commentedon Dec 12, 2022
We closed this issue because we don't plan to address it in the foreseeable future. If you disagree and feel that this issue is crucial: we are happy to listen and to reconsider.
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alefragnani commentedon Feb 27, 2026
Hi Pierce Boggan (@pierceboggan), Burke Holland (@burkeholland), James Montemagno (@jamesmontemagno) ,
Related to the recent question in the Let's Cook livestream, I guess this feature request (API) would need to be reopened, in order to GitHub Copilot Chat extension to be able to sync chats/sessions between machines, using Settings Sync.
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