Visual Studio Code – Location of Unsaved Files in Visual Studio Code

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Does anyone know where VS code saves unsaved files on a Windows machine?

I have found many discussions about this features, but they don't mention where the files are actually saved.

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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.

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MacOS – Where does Visual Studio Code store unsaved files on macOS

It can be found in a subdirectory of

~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/Backups

Note that the space above has been escaped with a \ character, so you can copy the path and paste it onto the command line.

If you want to put it in quotation marks, then you'll need drop \ character, and replace ~ with $HOME, like so:

"$HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/Backups"

On my laptop the subdirectory is named with a 13-digit number, inside of which is /untitled/. I would guess that the directory above untitled probably varies from installation to installation.

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