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Migrating from VSCode Insiders to VSCode Stable
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Migrating from VSCode Insiders to VSCode Stable

The problem with VSCode Insiders is that it's unstable, and you have to fix issues every few days to have it still running properly.

This guide will help you with replicating your VSCode Insiders profile into VSCode Stable. There's no automated way of doing it.

1. Remove all extensions from VSCode Stable

Do it manually.

2. Export the extension list from VSCode Insiders

code-insiders --list-extensions | xargs -L 1 echo code --install-extension

3. Install the extensions to VSCode Stable

Copy paste the command generated by step two.

4. Copy your settings.json from VSCode Insiders to VSCode Stable

>Preferences: Open Settings (JSON), copy-paste it from Insiders to Stable

5. Keyboard shortcuts

Import and export with >Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON)

If you can't open the keybindings this way (happened to me, weird bug on Stable), try to access the keybindings.json file manually.

6. Congrats!

You did it!

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