Files appear empty after August 2016 updated

[jwoodhull]

• VSCode Version: August 2016 Update
• OS Version: OSX El Capitan

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Update to the latest version of VSCode
2. Open any text file.

Notice that the file appears to be empty.

[ahejlsberg]

I'm seeing the same thing!

[jailsonayogo]

I got the same issue and to fix it I just deleted my settings.json. Then, I restored my settings file and it seems that the issue was caused by this line on my settings: "editor.fontSize": -4

[JCarran0]

Same problem here. My settings.json editor.fontSize was set to 0. Thanks @jailsonayogo for saving me some time.

[kieferrm]

@ahejlsberg similar issue for you?

[percyabrown]

I am experiencing the same thing on Windows 10 and my setting.json file only has
"php.validate.executablePath": "C:/PHP53/php.exe"

[jwoodhull]

Thanks for the heads up. My fontSize and lineHeight were set to 0

[mjkeating]

I had the same issue. I removed the 'fontSize: 0' line from my user settings file (settings.json) to fix it - thanks to this thread.

[kieferrm]

0 literally setting the font size to 0, and you need to open the file in some other editor. The locations are:
Windows: %APPDATA%/Code/User/settings.json
Linux: ~/.config/Code/User/settings.json
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json

[percyabrown]

Thanks @kieferrm ! Using Notepad++ changed the settings in %APPDATA%/Code/User/settings.json from "editor.fontSize": 0, "editor.lineHeight": 0, to "editor.fontSize": 14, "editor.lineHeight": 14 and I can now see the text.

[kieferrm]

#11715 reports the same issue. We currently test a fix.

[kieferrm]

We have released a recovery build. It's 1.5.1. Thanks to @jailsonayogo for helping us tracking this down.

[kieferrm]

Duplicate of #11715 .