Restore preferences from remote backups

[texastoland]

I accidentally rimrafed my .vscode-insiders directory with all my extensions. I found the backup but I can't do anything with it. There's no restore button, context menu item, action in the command palette, mention in the official doc, or previous issues here. The CLI can't even consume the JSON file. I'm going to write something with grep but I'm confused how the backups are intended to be used.

[sandy081]

/duplicate

[sandy081]

#93960

[texastoland]

My workaround was:

cat extensions.json |
  jq '.[]
      .identifier|select(.uuid)
      .id        |select(test("^ms-vscode.")|not)' |
  xargs -n1 code-insiders --install-extension

[texastoland]

@sandy081 Can you please reopen this since none of it was implemented in #93960 🙏🏽

[sandy081]

@texastoland This is in fact implemented in #93960, there is a download action in synced data view to restore - check this here - #93960 (comment)

[texastoland]

I previously saw the screenshot but don't understand how to sync. I tried it work on Insiders too. I can't find it even as a user who's already familiar with the particular feature.

[texastoland]

@sandy081 I finally clicked the cloud icon. It's a little unintuitive. I moved my UX request to #98820.