Improve VS Code when working with network drives

[bpasero]

Some issues impact users that try to run VS Code against slow network drives. Specifically:

• some folders fail to open or display (Network: VSCode does not open folders from network share #26931, Netwok: Folder appears empty when using a network drive #20207, Network: Folders unable to be opened #21397, Network: Left side explore folders don't always open #21520, Network: issues with network drives open mapped via Novell Client #25885)
• we remove folders from the recent folders list when they do not seem to exist even though they are (13699)
• when opening an already opened file, we load its metadata to find out if it changed (Add ability to create new file within a new folder by typing e.g. 'folder_name/file_name' #5353)
• when opening an already opened file, we open it to detect the encoding (FileService.resolveContent() should check for not modified since as first thing #21604)
• we close an editor when we detect a file delete event (this can happen from faulty file events) (Add an option to disable closing open files that are removed from the directory #11642)
• we prevent saving when we think the contents on disk are newer (which seems to happen sporadically on network drives) (Possible to save file multiple times leads to race condition #18037)

[dogmatic69]

we remove folders from the recent folders list when they do not seem to exist even though they are

Just had this happen, I did notice once the drive is reconnected and I open the folder manually all the open files I had were re-opened.

Edit: Closer inspection, these are files I had open at some point, but not what I had open last. Also did not maintain the order of the files opened.

[dogmatic69]

Another problem while using network drives is that the go to file ctrl+p is very slow, pretty much unusable.

[Sublime45]

This happens a lot while working on my computer (not a network hard drive).
To make things worse, it flushes any "undo history" I may have. So even if I go through the compare and accept changes, then I cannot undo any of the stuff.

It is starting to get a bit frustrating. You should at least add a setting to disable it.

Update: With the new update I can't even compare and save anymore. Now after I press the compare button I get a notification pop up that says Could not resolve any model with provided uri..
So now I have a lot of unsaved changes in my file and no way to save them.