VS Code open file readonly on breakpoint

Question

I have been using VS Code for many years now and all of a sudden last week all my nodejs projects will open a readonly file when encountering a debugger or breakpoint.

How do I disable this new unwanted functionality that has been forced upon me?

• The path for the original file and readonly file are EXACTLY the same.
• It effect all my individual unrelated nodejs projects. So it is not the launch config or something with the project files. It must be some global VS Code setting.
• I have no additional addons or modules or whatever they are called installed in VS Code other than what it came with for nodejs.

Thanks, Ryan

Answer 1

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/132307

tldr: set enableContentValidation: false in the launch config