Improve VS Code when working with network drives

[bpasero]

Some issues impact users that try to run VS Code against slow network drives. Specifically:

• some folders fail to open or display (Network: VSCode does not open folders from network share #26931, Netwok: Folder appears empty when using a network drive #20207, Network: Folders unable to be opened #21397, Network: Left side explore folders don't always open #21520, Network: issues with network drives open mapped via Novell Client #25885)
• we remove folders from the recent folders list when they do not seem to exist even though they are (13699)
• when opening an already opened file, we load its metadata to find out if it changed (Add ability to create new file within a new folder by typing e.g. 'folder_name/file_name' #5353)
• when opening an already opened file, we open it to detect the encoding (FileService.resolveContent() should check for not modified since as first thing #21604)
• we close an editor when we detect a file delete event (this can happen from faulty file events) (Add an option to disable closing open files that are removed from the directory #11642)
• we prevent saving when we think the contents on disk are newer (which seems to happen sporadically on network drives) (Possible to save file multiple times leads to race condition #18037)

[dogmatic69]

we remove folders from the recent folders list when they do not seem to exist even though they are

Just had this happen, I did notice once the drive is reconnected and I open the folder manually all the open files I had were re-opened.

Edit: Closer inspection, these are files I had open at some point, but not what I had open last. Also did not maintain the order of the files opened.

[dogmatic69]

Another problem while using network drives is that the go to file ctrl+p is very slow, pretty much unusable.

[Sublime45]

This happens a lot while working on my computer (not a network hard drive).
To make things worse, it flushes any "undo history" I may have. So even if I go through the compare and accept changes, then I cannot undo any of the stuff.

It is starting to get a bit frustrating. You should at least add a setting to disable it.

Update: With the new update I can't even compare and save anymore. Now after I press the compare button I get a notification pop up that says Could not resolve any model with provided uri..
So now I have a lot of unsaved changes in my file and no way to save them.

[andrewdigitalchaosca]

This is happening very frequently to me as well, working on a network drive as well, every other save I get an error

[pmhoudry]

I got the same frequent error on a samba share via virtualbox host only network.

[bpasero]

I pushed a fix for the annoying save error, happy for feedback in todays insider build.

[pmhoudry]

Great ! For me however, no errors since 1.8.1 2017-01-04 8:11 GMT+01:00 Benjamin Pasero <notifications@github.com>:

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[fegumi2003]

Hi all - I've been using VS Code for a week. I'm getting this error 4 out 10 times I save the file. This happens specifically with files in a SharePoint.

When I click on compare it does show me the differences, but I can't push my version over the SP one.

[bpasero]

@fegumi2003
Can you try to reproduce with our nightly insider builds? You can give our preview releases a try from: http://code.visualstudio.com/Download#insiders

[fegumi2003]

@bpasero I've been able to reproduce this using the insider version. What troubles me is that when I'm comparing the disk vs VS Code versions; discard or accept the changes does exactly the same (changes wiped out).

[bpasero]

Ok thanks for trying, I think this needs another look then. What I fixed specifically was this error happens when you have a slow connection and manage to hit Ctrl+S multiple times without the first save actually returning. There might still be a bug that the mtime we get back after the save is not the same as the one on the server. Though still hard for me to understand how that can happen.

[rbtbar]

Regarding the issue described as "we prevent saving when we think the contents on disk are newer":

It happens to me on a LOCAL drive too, when for instance a js beautifier is triggered in the background via monitoring script.

[bpasero]

We fixed that one for upcoming 1.9 release.

[dogmatic69]

We fixed that one for upcoming 1.9 release.

Just local files?

[bpasero]

Only one way to find out: http://code.visualstudio.com/Download#insiders

[AdamBJ]

@bpasero I'm still getting the sporadic saving error using version 1.13.1. Is the saving problem still an ongoing issue?

[bpasero]

@AdamBJ what is your setup? and when you then compare files, is there a change to the remote file?

[AdamBJ]

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as a virtual machine (via VMWare Workstation Player). The problem occurs when I've SSHed into a machine at my school and am working in one of the folders stored on the remote machine. As for the compare, the file on disk that is "newer" is the previous version of the file (i.e. the file minus any changes I've made since opening it).

One odd thing is that the problem doesn't seem to happen unless I'm on campus -- when I remote in from home I don't run into the error.

Let me know if you want more specific details on anything.

[se-m]

Hi.
I prefer to mount network shares to folders.
e.g. mklink /d c:\proj \\server\share\foldername\
I was faced with a problem that if you open such folder the editor does not read its settings from .vscode at all. But with same share folder mounted as disk vscode works fine.

Is there a way to force vscode work with such folders as with a network drive? (maybe list of folders in user settings)

VsCode: 1.13.1
Windows 7

[samirotiv]

Intellisense & autocomplete don't work on the latest version with an SMB share.

[AdamBJ]

@bpasero The network drives save issue only seems to happen when I'm using my laptop which is running a 32-bit version of VS Code on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

UPDATE: When I run into this error, it seems to happen every other save. I love VS Code, but this save issue really is killing my productivity.

[RobIsHere]

#31667

[nguyenbathanh]

Any news?

[barberdt]

I can confirm @samirotiv's statement regarding autocomplete/intellisense not working with an SSHFS-mounted drive (on Mac). Similar to @nguyenbathanh, I'm curious what may be going on here. FWIW, the Path Intellisense extension seems to have no issue auto-completing paths with the same mounted drive. Thanks for any and all support!

[barberdt]

@bpasero is this still the proper place to bring up related issues or would a new issue make more sense? Happy to accommodate in whatever way makes the most sense. Thanks!

[ChadRidings]

Error: Failed to save 'syncSummary.txt': The content on disk is newer. Click on Compare to compare your version with the one on disk. (Settings Sync 2.8.2 on Dec 18, 2017)

[paulej]

@ChadRidings Is that a Visual Studio Code issue or a Settings Sync issue (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Shan.code-settings-sync). That repo is https://github.com/shanalikhan/code-settings-sync/

[ChadRidings]

@paulej that is a good question. Yea I was looking at that repo yesterday as well. I've been taken down a rabbit hole where it's hard for me to determine if this is a problem with the application or a problem with the extension. I'll report back when I have a better idea.

[THCloud]

hi：I also have similar problem， I work with samba， open a folder on remote machine， （mine is Win， remote‘s is linux）， and I wanna use shell on remote machine， can VSCode integrated teminal do it？

[danvc]

@THCloud yes, you can, but I strongly recommend you to use the integrated terminal by SSH, I mean, connect to the server using SSH session.

[JalpeshVadgama]

Is there any update for this? As I m using it for Linux network drive and it's taking so much time compared to sublime text. Sublime text it's blazing fast.

[aimcom]

I have problems with sshfs mounted directories in Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu, too. Autocomplete and IntelliSense don't work properly.

So I've created a small workaround that I want to share: It worked for me to copy the sshfs directory locally, watch changes in this directory with inotifywait and copy them into the sshfs directory with a small shell script. This doesn't reflect changes on the remote filesystem but this is not important for me.

[johndugan]

Another Samba user here. I have two workflows - If I'm remote, I work with a Debian VM on Hyper-V (on my laptop). If I am at my desk, I work with a Debian VM on a VMware server that has better hardware.

In both cases, the Git features in code have very poor performance. Search is fairly performant though.

[yellow-sunshine]

I was trying to use VS Code with my git repository on a samba share. I am using mac and the samba share is on a remote Ubuntu 18.04 machine hosted on AWS. VS code and git would not work properly when I had my repository on a samba share but I had to get work done so I went ahead and started working without git. I was editing a file that was 2 days old, hours of work, and VS code hanged. When I reopened VS Code I was shocked to see my file on the server was blank. In fact, every file I had open at the time of the crash was blank. Now if git would have been workign properly I would not have lost data.

I guess it is back to Dreamweaver? Before I do somethign crazy like that, I am trying also a NFS. Git hub is still having issues. but I got 2 commits to go through. I am hacing trouble with more commits. It keeps telling me I can not write and index.lock file. Prob because VS code is unable to write to the network drive

[bpasero]

I am closing this issue and ask people to file individual issues with reproducible steps after searching for duplicates. Having one large issue turns out to be not very helpful to manage.