How to clean up temporary files when opening a VS Code workspace?

[leanhdung1994]

Is there a built-in Quarto setting, CLI command, or VS Code integration that cleans up stale Quarto temporary files when I open a folder as a workspace?

If Quarto doesn’t provide this, what approach would you recommend?

The information on my system is

• Windows 11 Pro
• Quarto CLI version 1.10.18
• Quarto extension version 1.138.0

[mcanouil]

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I'm converting this to a Discussion.

I also suggest you update your post with information such as your environment, the version of Quarto CLI, the "quarto" VSCode extension, etc. as suggested in the discussion template.
This will help us help you.

Meanwhile, these dot folders can simply be deleted by you.

[mcanouil]

If you use git, since those dot-folders are untracked, you could use git clean -ndX / git clean -fdX.

[leanhdung1994]

I think automatically deleting temporary files/folders when opening VS Code makes the workspace clean. I hope the team considers make it into a built-in option.

[mcanouil]

I don't believe that is something to be done (if to be done in first place) by the IDE.

Don't mistake Quarto CLI and the extension for Code OSS based IDE like VSCode and Positron.

[leanhdung1994]

I have found that setting a script running with "task.allowAutomaticTasks": "on" would solve the problem

[mcanouil]

See:

• Feature Request: Add a --no-write or --temp-dir flag for quarto preview to avoid folder clutter #14725
• [Feature request] Can Quarto please create_all_ temporary files _not_ in the same directory with my source files? #1666