Vscode: Ability to close and folders to reduce resource consumption in multi-root workspaces

[brsanthu]

Eclipse has a concept of closing and opening projects. Closed projects are still part of the workspace but no files are visible from that project and essentially reduces the resources Eclipse consumes. Also help avoid the clutter (when search for something across workspace or opening file etc).

_Image is from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51627864/how-to-close-folderdisabled-in-the-vs-code-workspace-like-eclipse_

Vscode has feature called remove folder from workspace but it completely removes it. If we need it back, we need to browser for it and add it.

I would like to request to add feature to close and open folders similar to Eclipse.

[eine]

I'd like to have this feature too, since the git integration frequently complains about too large workspaces. However, I would suggest to name it 'enable/disable folder', instead of 'open/close'.

/cc @RMacfarlane.

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[jakub-g]

I'll just paste comment from my dupe ticket:

There should be a new option: Disable folder / Enable folder in the menu below:

When folder is disabled it would just show up in the list, but be _effectively dead_ (not expandable, not searchable etc.)

My use case is not about resource consumption, but about:

• avoiding search matches that are useless in CTRL-F
• avoiding file matches that are useless in CTRL-P

Assume you work on foobar but you have one annoying folder which has 1000 matches of foobar which are not relevant to your current work. You want to disable it for a day or two, but not completely thrash it out from workspace.

Vscode:

Eclipse:

[novavsc]

Please consider adding this feature. It will be extremly useful to have this feature when working with multiple projects/folders.