Visual Studio Code files.exclude setting not working

Question

I am using Unity and trying to exclude .meta files from the file explorer sidebar. I navigated to File->Preferences->User Settings (or Workspace settings, doesn't matter), and set the contents of the file to the following:

// Place your settings in this file to overwrite default and user settings. {         "files.exclude": {         "**/.meta": true     } } 

...and saved my changes. Yet, when I click the Refresh icon or close/reopen my folder view, I am still seeing all the .meta files showing up in the left pane. Am I doing something wrong here?

Answer 1

My problem was basing my pattern off of the existing ones, which excluded specific file names rather than patterns. I simply needed to add an asterisk before the file extension, i.e.

"**/*.meta" 

instead of

"**/.meta"