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What is the migration procedure for moving from Windows system-wide Visual Studio Code to user setup?

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I am an existing user of the system-wide distribution of Visual Studio Code. I have been prompted to switch to the new User Setup distribution. This directs me to download the user setup installer. When running this installer, it tells me that I should uninstall the existing installation before installing the new one.

The uninstall procedure doesn't give any indication that settings and extensions will be kept.

I want to ensure that I keep all of my existing settings and extensions when moving to the new version. Is this possible?

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tvStatic Avatar asked Aug 13 '18 22:08

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I have tried the new distribution and confirmed that extensions will be kept.

Please note that the default install location of this distribution is <OS drive>:\Users\<Your username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code

The two distributions share the same .vscode folder and setting. It doesn't force you to remove the system wide distribution when install the user distribution. If you have 2 distributions at the same time, when you open the system wide distribution it will remind you yo use the user distribution instead.

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Hai Hoang Avatar answered Oct 05 '22 02:10

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