How to make Intellisense metadata persistent in Visual Studio Code











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I'm using Visual Studio Code for C/C++ development (and I'm very happy with it).



However, I'm working on huge C/C++ projects, which makes Intellisense work for a long time before getting all the files, symbols, etc.



The problem is that the result of this long process seems to be non-persistent when I quit and come back to my project folder, Intellisense starts everything again, and this is not convenient to wait for 15 minutes before being able to go to a symbol definition.



Is it possible to force Intellisense parsed results to be persistent? Like allowing it to store metadata in .vscode directory of my project?



I think Intellisense stores everything in my home directory in a folder which must get cleaned periodically or when growing to a certain size (directory ~/.config/Code is 3 GB big so I guess it's there).



Alternatively can I increase the size limit of this folder?










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I'm using Visual Studio Code for C/C++ development (and I'm very happy with it).



However, I'm working on huge C/C++ projects, which makes Intellisense work for a long time before getting all the files, symbols, etc.



The problem is that the result of this long process seems to be non-persistent when I quit and come back to my project folder, Intellisense starts everything again, and this is not convenient to wait for 15 minutes before being able to go to a symbol definition.



Is it possible to force Intellisense parsed results to be persistent? Like allowing it to store metadata in .vscode directory of my project?



I think Intellisense stores everything in my home directory in a folder which must get cleaned periodically or when growing to a certain size (directory ~/.config/Code is 3 GB big so I guess it's there).



Alternatively can I increase the size limit of this folder?










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  • Many times this is caused by an installed extension.
    – harrymc
    Nov 22 at 10:57













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I'm using Visual Studio Code for C/C++ development (and I'm very happy with it).



However, I'm working on huge C/C++ projects, which makes Intellisense work for a long time before getting all the files, symbols, etc.



The problem is that the result of this long process seems to be non-persistent when I quit and come back to my project folder, Intellisense starts everything again, and this is not convenient to wait for 15 minutes before being able to go to a symbol definition.



Is it possible to force Intellisense parsed results to be persistent? Like allowing it to store metadata in .vscode directory of my project?



I think Intellisense stores everything in my home directory in a folder which must get cleaned periodically or when growing to a certain size (directory ~/.config/Code is 3 GB big so I guess it's there).



Alternatively can I increase the size limit of this folder?










share|improve this question













I'm using Visual Studio Code for C/C++ development (and I'm very happy with it).



However, I'm working on huge C/C++ projects, which makes Intellisense work for a long time before getting all the files, symbols, etc.



The problem is that the result of this long process seems to be non-persistent when I quit and come back to my project folder, Intellisense starts everything again, and this is not convenient to wait for 15 minutes before being able to go to a symbol definition.



Is it possible to force Intellisense parsed results to be persistent? Like allowing it to store metadata in .vscode directory of my project?



I think Intellisense stores everything in my home directory in a folder which must get cleaned periodically or when growing to a certain size (directory ~/.config/Code is 3 GB big so I guess it's there).



Alternatively can I increase the size limit of this folder?







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  • Many times this is caused by an installed extension.
    – harrymc
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  • Many times this is caused by an installed extension.
    – harrymc
    Nov 22 at 10:57
















Many times this is caused by an installed extension.
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Many times this is caused by an installed extension.
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