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Merging existing preferences and extensions to portable #1718

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The `data` folder can be moved to other VS Code installations. This is useful for updating your portable Code version: simply move the `data` folder to a newer extracted version of VS Code.

#### Merging your existing preferences and extensions to portable

If you have an existing - non portable - installation of VS Code and you want to get your preferences and extensions portable:
* create data folder (see above)
* start code --> at first start subdirectories "extensions" and "user-data" are created under data
* copy your "old" extensions from "<userHome>\.vscode\extensions\" to "data\extensions"
* copy your user data from "<userHome>\AppData\Roaming\Code\" to "data\user-data"


### macOS

On **macOS**, you need to place the data folder as a sibling of the application itself. Since the folder will be alongside the application, you need to name it specifically so that Code can find it. The default folder name is `code-portable-data`:
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