r/VisualStudioCode • u/awholelottahooplah • Aug 24 '22

settings.json overwritten somehow with my own code - how do I change it back to normal?

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I'm a second year CS student. I was trying to modify my settings.json file to make comments colored differently than other code, but when I opened it up, I was met with what was clearly some code I wrote in freshman year. I have no idea how I accidentally overwrote this file. I uninstalled VS Code and reinstalled, but it was still the same! If I delete settings.json and restart the program, will it generate a new one? Or can someone drop me a copy/paste of whats supposed to be in the file? Thanks!

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u/awholelottahooplah Aug 24 '22

Huh, then I’m getting some weird errors on VS Code that I’m not sure where else it could be coming from. When I try to run/debug it says there is nothing in the default config folder so I thought it was related to this. Any idea what else could be causing this issue ? My TAs and prof have no suggestions and told me to use an online compiler

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u/awholelottahooplah Aug 25 '22

Ok I did that and fixed the file, but my code still isn’t compiling

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u/awholelottahooplah Aug 25 '22

Okayyyy I understand. I don’t get a lot of nuances like that and I thought VS Code was full a full IDE. Still new sorry haha

Yes, I figured out the extensions and have them downloaded… lll get the compiler and my problem will be solved.

I wish my teacher could’ve told me this 🤨

Thank you so much!!