How to reset settings in Visual Studio Code?

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Landeeyo picture Landeeyo · Mar 20, 2016 · Viewed 242.9k times · Source

It's a simple thing and I was pretty sure it's well described, but surprisingly it is not so obvious.

Here I've found a detailed description of settings file. As it states it should be setting.json file located %APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json, but in my case it's not there.

Can someone give me some help with restoring default settings in Visual Studio Code? I've hidden menu bar by accident and I can't find no way to show it back.

Answer

Daniel Imms picture Daniel Imms · Mar 20, 2016

You can get your menu back by pressing/holding alt, you can then toggle the menu back on via the View menu.

As for your settings, you can open your user settings through the command palette:

  1. Press F1
  2. Type user settings
  3. Press enter

  4. Click the "sheet" icon to open the settings.json file:

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From there you can delete the file's contents and save to reset your settings.

For a more manual route, the settings files are located in the following locations:

  • Windows %APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json
  • macOS $HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json
  • Linux $HOME/.config/Code/User/settings.json

Extensions are located in the following locations:

  • Windows %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions
  • macOS ~/.vscode/extensions
  • Linux ~/.vscode/extensions

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