I encounter a question while I am using Visual Studio Code on Mac, I used to kill a process related to the search function on VS Code(Sorry I forgot the process name) because of the high CPU usage.

After that, I found that the global search does not work in VS Code any more, sometimes I really need this function to search file or open file in a quick way; I have searched many times but can not get the solution. So I go to here and asking for help.

When I use command + p to search file by name, the rate of process is always on loading, it can only list those files which I have opened, other files even they are matched by name will not be shown in list.

So I want to make search functions well as usual, how could I do?

I encounter a question while I am using Visual Studio Code on Mac, I used to kill a process related to the search function on VS Code(Sorry I forgot the process name) because of the high CPU usage.

After that, I found that the global search does not work in VS Code any more, sometimes I really need this function to search file or open file in a quick way; I have searched many times but can not get the solution. So I go to here and asking for help.

When I use command + p to search file by name, the rate of process is always on loading, it can only list those files which I have opened, other files even they are matched by name will not be shown in list.

So I want to make search functions well as usual, how could I do?

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• I think I've had problems like this before when I overwrote a search exclude list and left out node_modules or vendor which quickly fill with massive amounts of files. I would check your user and workspace preferences to make sure. – Christopher Commented Jul 11, 2017 at 3:22
• Yes, It really works, After I removed the search.exclude config in my preferences and restart the VSCode, The problem has been solved, Thank u very much :) – Mongoose Commented Jul 11, 2017 at 7:06

2 Answers 2

If search is only searching on opened files, ensure this sneaky setting 'Search only in Open Editors' is not accidentally enabled.

I encountered the same issue about 1.5 months ago. Reinstalling fixed the issue for me, but as indicated this reported bug it can have something to do with your search.exclude glob pattern as well. If reinstalling does not fix the issue for you, that linked issue might be the problem you're experiencing.