Does not work with Portable Visual Studio Code

[jwstevens-ii]

Visual Studio Code Version : 1.12.2
Code Settings Sync Version : 2.8.0
Operating System : Windows 10.0.14393
Occurs On: Upload / Download
Proxy Enabled: No
GIst Id: jwstevensii

Sync does not properly work when Launching Visual Studio Code with the below parameters

--user-data-dir=[Alternate folder here]
--extensionHomePath=[Alternate folder here]

[shanalikhan]

It doesnt support portable vs code now. We will see what can be done later on.

[shanalikhan]

Pending for

1. [ExtensionDev] Expose API to get at file system locations microsoft/vscode#2741
2. How to know either Code is running as portable mode via code api or env. variable microsoft/vscode#54824

[haoadoreorange]

Hi, any news for portable vscode ?

[gandalfsaxe]

@shanalikhan As far as I can see, you're pending for microsoft/vscode#2741 because you want to support the portable version in a safe manner instead of hard cording paths. This is reasonable, but how about just starting portable version support by hard coding? It may be a bit of maintenance, but it really sucks to manually copy paste settings across files right now. Besides, I can't see any reason it's worse with the portable version as the regular version? Both must be hard coded now?

There are slight differences, e.g. Windows uses data in the same folder level as Code.exe whereas macOS uses code-portable-data at the same level as Visual Studio Code.app. But surely this is identical to treating different OSs for the non-portable VSCode?

Btw I wouldn't mind maintaining any changes made to the portable paths at least for the macOS version until we hopefully get these at an API level.

[shanalikhan]

Yes you are right.
I am currently checking if visual studio code provide some sort of flag that shows user is running a portable mode than hard code path can be used for now.
But if they dont even provide some method to check the portable mode is running or standard then i have to dig into a longer route by viewing the standard paths for code variants ( standard, insiders ) for each OS ( windows, Mac, Ubuntu ) and then setting hard code path as above for portable mode

[gandalfsaxe]

Gotcha.

You could just introduce a "sync.isUsingPortable" setting that defaults to false for now. If set to true, then it use a different set of paths.

Let me know if I can be of any help. I use both Windows and macOS at the moment.

[shanalikhan]

Yes, if there will no other option then I would have to go manual setup to adding keys.

[gandalfsaxe]

I can't help but to notice that the issue in question has been open since February 2016, so I'd say we shouldn't hold our breath for that one. Better to have a less elegant, but working solution now.

As I said, let me know if I can help in any way.