Please let me hide the empty folder section in the explorer sidebar

[bobbilljim]

You can hide every other section but not the folder one. I don't use it so it always just says "NO FOLDER OPENED". I would like to be able to hide it.

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• Explorer hide empty folder? (#19032)

[isidorn]

This is currently not possible by design, since Explorer is the "default" view thus we do not allow to hide it.
However this is a fair feature request, thus I am leaving it open and assigning to the backlog since we do not plan to tackle it now.

fyi @sandy081

[sandy081]

We intentionally made explorer fixed as lot of users had issues with that in the past.

But, I think user here is talking about the open folder view in empty window which can be made hide-able.

[isidorn]

Now it is possible to hide the Exmpty View. You can try this out in vscode insiders from Thursday and onward. Thanks

[bobbilljim]

Thanks!