re-open vscode without last workspace or last files

Question

I wish set VSCode to be launched clean, no last workspace or last files opened.. is this possible?

I use it as unity3d debugger and annoying me all the times that opens a previous workspace (no workspaces saved)

thanks in advance

Answer 1

Besides my comment above, also see open a new window, v1.22 released today if you prefer to open via a command line.

Controls if a new empty window should open when starting a second instance without arguments or if the last running instance should get focus. // - on: open a new empty window // - off: the last active running instance will get focus // Note that there can still be cases where this setting is ignored (e.g. when using the -new-window or -reuse-window command line option).

  "window.openWithoutArgumentsInNewWindow": "on"

But the setting

"window.restoreWindows": "none"

should also work for opening in other ways (but seems to require a few restarts - perhaps it has been fixed as of 1.22?).

Answer 2

None of the other solutions were working for me.

Recently hit this issue where I tried to do a find and replace with 15000 files and vscode crashed while trying to save all those files. I closed the window and re-opened but it kept trying to re-open those 15000 files and would crash again.

I was able to fix this by deleting the corresponding workspace folder (search by folder name) in

/Users/{username}/Library/Application Support/Code/User/workspaceStorage

Then when you reopen that folder nothing is saved or open.