Vscode: Hot exit: Lost editor contents on upgrade

[wmertens]

• VSCode Version: 1.11.0 and the one before that
• OS Version: 10.12.4

Steps to Reproduce:

1. open new window, paste text in new editor, don't save it
2. quit and start vscode => text remains
3. upgrade => text is gone :(

[bpasero]

I can reproduce.

@Tyriar fyi

[bpasero]

This is a regression from https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commit/36731c60e277509b55e5f2eeaf44003e31663ad6 where we stopped to store backups in lowercase paths (macOS, Windows).

[wmertens]

The good news is that I was able to find back my contents by grepping for a string I knew under Library/Application Support/Code :)

[bpasero]

@wmertens that was lucky, when I tested it the backups are gone after a restart. So as long as you are not restarting, the backups are probably untouched.

[bpasero]

We are about to release 1.11.1 with a fix...

[bpasero]

We released 1.11.1 with a fix. Again very sorry for this serious regression, I added steps to our smoke test to verify updates better in the future so that this does not happen again.

[wmertens]

And thank you for such a quick turnaround!

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017, 5:58 PM Benjamin Pasero [e-mail]
wrote:

We released 1.11.1 with a fix. Again very sorry for this serious
regression, I added steps to our smoke test
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Smoke-Test to verify updates
better in the future so that this does not happen again.

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[mafredri]

Thanks for the quick fix!

A tip for anyone using macOS that lost data and it's already gone. If you have Time Machine backups, restore ~/Library/Application Support/Code/Backups from before you updated and use ripgrep to find it 😄 (thanks @wmertens for the idea).

[adizam]

Good work

[dmsergeev]

Thank you!