Intellicode causing .vs to grow indefinitely with Visual Studio 2022

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Intellicode causing .vs to grow indefinitely with Visual Studio 2022

Darren 20

My .vs folder continues to grow very fast and completely fills up the windows hard drive. We are talking it growing within a day to fill up 50Gb of space. I need to stop and delete this folder on a regular basis

I have been trying to find a post from someone with a similar issue but haven't been successful (maybe my question is not phrased well)

I am developing with Visual Studio 2022 on windows 11 ARM running on a macbook M1 in parallels. I am not sure if ARM or parallels has anything to do with it, but I don't experience this problem with the similar setup on my windows desktop

I am not good enough with Visual Studio 2022 setup to figure out what is happening

Karen Payne MVP 35,566 Reputation points

2023-08-13T08:25:15.46+00:00

You need to report this to Microsoft using the feedback button, upper right corner of the IDE.
Darren 20 Reputation points

2023-08-13T23:41:30.65+00:00

Thanks Karen! Will do

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Karen Payne MVP 35,566 Reputation points

2023-08-13T08:25:15.46+00:00

You need to report this to Microsoft using the feedback button, upper right corner of the IDE.
Darren 20 Reputation points

2023-08-13T23:41:30.65+00:00

Thanks Karen! Will do

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Anna Xiu-MSFT 30,966 Microsoft External Staff

Hi @Darren,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

Does it happen in specific project or all projects?

You can try to rename or delete the Indexing.servicehub.service.json file from the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\[Community,Pro,Enterprise,Preview]\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\Editor\ServiceHub folder.

Then, delete the .vs folder and re-launch your VS2022.

Besides, I found the similar issue in Developer Community and it has been fixed in latest version of VS2022 ARM.

Please update it and check it again.

Sincerely,

Anna

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Darren 20 Reputation points

2023-08-15T04:59:08.76+00:00

Thanks Anna. It happens in all projects. I need to continually go through any project I work on and drop the .vs folder to make sure my drive doesn't fill up

I will try renaming the file you mentioned, does this stop the intellicode from running?

I was on version 17.6.5 and the problem was occurring, I will try version 17.7.0 and see if it has the same issue

Thank you for taking the time to answer my question
Darren 20 Reputation points

2023-08-16T00:20:50.7766667+00:00

Thanks Anna, this solved my issue. The only difference between the deleted and regenerated Indexing.servicehub.service.json files was this property

(Problem file) "host": "coreClr"

(Fixed file) "host": "dotnet"

I personally don't know what this property does, maybe it might help someone understand the cause of the issue
Anna Xiu-MSFT 30,966 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-08-16T09:48:01.9866667+00:00

Thanks for your sharing!

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