Todo-tree: extension stopped working: "running the contributed command: 'todo-tree.refresh' failed."

[the-vampiire]

hey thank you for the extension it's incredibly helpful. not sure what changed but i returned to a codebase that i had used custom todo-tree labels in after a month or so. now none of the tags are picked up and when i hit the refresh button the error i get in the bottom corner toaster is:

running the contributed command: 'todo-tree.refresh' failed.

i have tried:

• uninstall / reinstall extension
• quit vscode completely and reopen
• enable in settings "todo-tree.general.debug": true (no output is shown besides the toaster popup)

for the record i havent changed anything else about vscode in recent memory (no updates or new extensions added).

machine data:

vscode

Version: 1.40.2
Commit: f359dd69833dd8800b54d458f6d37ab7c78df520
Date: 2019-11-25T14:52:45.129Z
Electron: 6.1.5
Chrome: 76.0.3809.146
Node.js: 12.4.0
V8: 7.6.303.31-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 18.7.0

todo-tree extension: 0.0.174, "this extension is enabled globally"

[Gruntfuggly]

Your version of vscode is quite out of date, but you have the latest version of the extension, so it maybe that there is an incompatibility. Could you open the developer console (Help -> Toggle Developer Tools) and have a look to see what errors are present?

[the-vampiire]

@Gruntfuggly brilliant that did it. didn't realize how far behind i was! i had DNS resolution for the 30+ ms servers to dead end because of all the telemetry which caused the VSC update checks to fail.

[pcprince]

I'm having this issue on version 1.46.0 of VS Code. Opening the developer console gives these errors:
Activating extension 'Gruntfuggly.todo-tree' failed: Cannot find module 'micromatch'
Error: command 'todo-tree.refresh' not found
I've tried reinstalling the extension multiple times and it doesn't work. I can't remember when the extension stopped working as previously it was fine.

[Gruntfuggly]

That's odd - it definitely sounds like it's failed to install. Can you try:

1. uninstall the extension.
2. restart vscode
3. quit vscode
4. look in .vscode/extensions and check that the extension is definitely gone.
5. restart code
6. reinstall

If that does't work, can you open a terminal window and go into .vscode/extensions/gruntfuggly.todo-tree-0.0.176 and try npm install and see what happens?

[pcprince]

Typical. This time, reinstalling it fixed the issue. After weeks of that not working.

[Gruntfuggly]

Do you have multiple windows open? One thing I've noticed is that Code doesn't actually remove an extension until every window is closed, I guess in case one of them is still using it. It's caught me out a few times, which is why I completely quit and restart when uninstalling.