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So I am setting up another machine and I installed VSCode and did sync my old account... it showed some merge conflict between the two... I just clicked resolve... and then it happened... all my settings are gone... and I am left with empty settings.json file (well, with one setting in about the icons).... how can I restore my previous version?

obviously myt original PC was automatically changed to no settings :'(

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  • Does this answer your question? [How can I recover lost/deleted/reset VS Code settings?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68340146/how-can-i-recover-lost-deleted-reset-vs-code-settings) – starball Aug 30 '23 at 22:26
  • pretty much! promise I did a search before how could I do it... but looks like I was not searching correctly. Thanks – DS_web_developer Aug 30 '23 at 22:34
  • you're welcome. please close your question as a duplicate then :) – starball Aug 30 '23 at 22:36

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Oh, thank God I found the solution...

so in the users AppData folder there is a sync/settings folder (C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\sync\settings)

just found the encoded json file with my old settings... asked chatGPT to decode it... and done... restored!

hope it helps someone

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