Visual Studio Clean wiped contents of script source folder

Question

ASP.Net Core project, .NET 5. Have all my TS/JS in a folder called Scripts in wwwroot. Executing a "Clean" command on the solution wiped out all contents of the folder -- many days of work lost. In process of recovering but this seems like a bug or at least something VS should warn about. VS 16.9.0, W10.

Answer 1

Hi @Barry Briggs ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

The Clean will remove all intermediate and output files created by the build process, such as .obj files.

If the source folder is removed, please check if you add a custom target to your .csproj file and it will lead to clean all contents of your folder.

In addition, you can also try to disable some third-party extensions from Extensions > Manage Extensions > Installed > select and Disable, then, relaunch your Visual Studio to check if it persists.

Sincerely,
Anna

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