How to hide .meta and .cs.meta files in Visual Studio Code on Windows

I using Visual Studio Code to write code for Unity and I want to hide files .meta and .cs.meta. How does it work?

 

A quick Bing search gives this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...nd-cs-meta-files-on-mac-in-visual-studio-code and https://xinyustudio.wordpress.com/2...-code-and-hide-meta-and-other-unwanted-files/. Both links are more than self-explanatory.

However I have no idea why you would want to hide them...

 

Perhaps because they're only used by Unity and their presence adds no value for a developer?

 

https://answers.unity.com/questions/1260730/how-to-hide-meta-and-csmeta-files-in-visual-studio.html

 

Thanks unity_cbZwhJ7k3OlliA, I prefer answers like yours. Without the snark.

 

I just started using VS code, so I don't know if this is a recent change or what but if you go to settings there is one more step to opening settings.json. Click this icon in the upper right.



then add this

Code (CSharp):

1.  "files.exclude": {
2.          "**/*.meta": true
3.        }

 

I was wondering the same question, and found a .vscode folder containing a settings.json file as mentioned above.

I don't remember writing this, so I'm not sure what automatically wrote this, but here's my .vscode/settings.json:

Code (csharp):

1. {
2.     "files.exclude":
3.     {
4.         "**/.DS_Store":true,
5.         "**/.git":true,
6.         "**/.gitignore":true,
7.         "**/.gitmodules":true,
8.         "**/*.booproj":true,
9.         "**/*.pidb":true,
10.         "**/*.suo":true,
11.         "**/*.user":true,
12.         "**/*.userprefs":true,
13.         "**/*.unityproj":true,
14.         "**/*.dll":true,
15.         "**/*.exe":true,
16.         "**/*.pdf":true,
17.         "**/*.mid":true,
18.         "**/*.midi":true,
19.         "**/*.wav":true,
20.         "**/*.gif":true,
21.         "**/*.ico":true,
22.         "**/*.jpg":true,
23.         "**/*.jpeg":true,
24.         "**/*.png":true,
25.         "**/*.psd":true,
26.         "**/*.tga":true,
27.         "**/*.tif":true,
28.         "**/*.tiff":true,
29.         "**/*.3ds":true,
30.         "**/*.3DS":true,
31.         "**/*.fbx":true,
32.         "**/*.FBX":true,
33.         "**/*.lxo":true,
34.         "**/*.LXO":true,
35.         "**/*.ma":true,
36.         "**/*.MA":true,
37.         "**/*.obj":true,
38.         "**/*.OBJ":true,
39.         "**/*.asset":true,
40.         "**/*.cubemap":true,
41.         "**/*.flare":true,
42.         "**/*.mat":true,
43.         "**/*.meta":true,
44.         "**/*.prefab":true,
45.         "**/*.unity":true,
46.         "build/":true,
47.         "Build/":true,
48.         "Library/":true,
49.         "library/":true,
50.         "obj/":true,
51.         "Obj/":true,
52.         "ProjectSettings/":true,
53.         "temp/":true,
54.         "Temp/":true
55.     }
56. }

If you add/remove from this list, it'll affect VS Code whenever you open the folder that contains this .vscode folder.

 

@ModLunar You can use [Bb]uild/ to avoid duplicating same name with different cases, same with file extensions

https://gist.github.com/jasursadikov/df5d4eafc7ef245d8e5759676ba5ae82

 

Ah late thanks!
I suppose I could edit the file.. but since I didn't create it, I'll leave it though I do use that syntax in my .gitignores.

 

A sane, professional answer to a simple question. Others try to show their two bits without actually answering the question asked!

 

Sorry for replying late again you can fork it and edit as you wish

 

Thank you!