Sometimes Open with Code doesn't open the file

[digeff]

• VSCode Version: 1.7.1
• OS Version: Windows 10 Enterprise

Sometimes when VS Code is already opened, trying to use the Open With Code menu on a file doesn't work (has no effect).

I'm not sure how to reproduce this, but it happens from time to time

[joaomoreno]

How often does it happen?

[digeff]

A few times a month, depending on how much I use VS Code

[joaomoreno]

Can you keep an open eye as to what kind of files make this happen? It's hard to figure out what could be wrong without any clues.

[digeff]

While it happens, it seems to happen with every file I try to do this with…
If I then close all open VS Code instances, Open with Code starts to work again for all files.
I also noticed that there were a lot of Code.exe instances running while this was happening…

From: João Moreno [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2016 8:33 AM
To: Microsoft/vscode [email protected]
Cc: Diego Geffner [email protected]; Author [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Microsoft/vscode] Sometimes Open with Code doesn't open the file (#15908)

Can you keep an open eye as to what kind of files make this happen? It's hard to figure out what could be wrong without any clues.

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[sebagomez]

I've found a way of reproducing this issue.
In my case at least, I have an opened command line all time which is ran as Admin. I usually start code from there code . or code somefile. When I have opened VSCode like that, I can't use Open with Code anymore, either for a file or folder.

Hope it helps track this annoying bug.

[joaomoreno]

This is #1614

[ghost]

@joaomoreno How is this related to #1614? That bug is all about Running VS Code as an administrator, whereas this is about VS Code not opening a file? I don't see the connection. I run into this bug almost every day.

[digeff]

It happens quite often to me, and I don't run VS Code as an admin. I still haven't figured out what's the pattern though...

[ghost]

For me is really easy to reproduce:

1. Open a command prompt in windows and start VS Code by typing "code ."
2. Open a File Explorer window and try to open a file using Right Click -> Open With Code
   The file doesn't open every time for me.

[joaomoreno]

@daschult This is quite old now. Can you try to fully reinstall Code?

[digeff]

I still had this issue last week, and I usually use the latest version of VS Code.

[ghost]

I just uninstalled and reinstalled VS Code and I get the same result that I reported 4 days ago. Can you guys not reproduce it?

[joaomoreno]

Can you show me a screenshot of that "Open with Code" action?

No, I can't reproduce.

[ghost]

Ah, I just tried it with a non-administrator command prompt, and it worked, just like you said. However, if I try it from an administrator command prompt, then it does the behavior that I've described.