Stale "Visual Studio Code Workspaces" search results

[anderspk]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.76.1

Installation method

PowerToys auto-update

Running as admin

No

Area(s) with issue?

PowerToys Run

Steps to reproduce

I've noticed an issue with PowerToys Run where it continues to display workspace entries for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) projects that no longer exist. This seems to be due to VSCode not cleaning up workspace entries in User/globalStorage after a project is deleted/moved, and PowerToys Run doesn't filter out these stale entries.

✔️ Expected Behavior

Non-existing workspaces should not be displayed in the search result.

❌ Actual Behavior

Non-existing workspaces are displayed.

Other Software

No response

[htcfreek]

@anderspk
I think you have asked in the other issue (#28769) if you can start working on this. Feel free to open a PR and contribute the fix/enhancement. Please let us know here if you do so.

[anderspk]

I'm starting to work on it now, should be done today.

[jaimecbernardo]

Hi, this has been worked on for the 0.78 development cycle. 😄
Please update PowerToys to the latest: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases

[anderspk]

I'm sorry to say that I coded + tested this on my Windows 10 pc, where it works, but on my Windows 11 work laptop, which I tried it on after installing the update, it doesn't 😢
Sorry about that.

The main cause of this "bug" is VSCode itself, though, and the way they don't clean up workspaces.

Maybe a better solution anyways would be to allow users to delete/filter results from Run with something like shift + delete on a result, and then it ends up on a list they can access from the PT Run menu. That would cover all the unwanted search-results issues across the board.