Stop opening files when drag and drop in explorer

[ghtz08]

Stop opening files when drag and drop in explorer

When I drag and drop any file to Visual Studio Code's explorer, it automatically opens this file in the editor. Are there any settings to turn off this behavior?

Usually, I work with large and heavy CSV, JSON, etc., so when these files open it can really slow down my computer, also because some extensions like text highlighting automatically try to parse the text, but until it realizes that it is too much content to do his job and shows a warning that it won't continue because of performance issues, it has already slowed down my computer.

Of course, I can just close fast enough the file before this happens, but sometimes the problem still occurs (and anyway it should be possible to disable this feature).

This is a problem of stack overflow. I need this too.

[vwinland]

Any update here? I'm also interested in disabling auto open files on drag and drop. I have enough tabs open in my browser I don't need anymore in my editor T.T

[vscodenpa]

This feature request is now a candidate for our backlog. The community has 60 days to upvote the issue. If it receives 20 upvotes we will move it to our backlog. If not, we will close it. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding!

[dmalan]

Just wanted to chime in to say that the behavior also tends to be undesirable when dragging and dropping a binary file to the explorer, since users (students in our case) are then prompted in a tab to open a file that they shouldn't in that manner:

Thank you!

[vscodenpa]

🙂 This feature request received a sufficient number of community upvotes and we moved it to our backlog. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding!

[LetsGoFir]

🙂 This feature request received a sufficient number of community upvotes and we moved it to our backlog. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding!

how‘s it going?

[Ellio-Sumner]

This is also really annoying me.

[XZJIsme]

any updates on this? QAQ

[dmalan]

Thank you, @lramos15!

[zhu-ty]

When should this setting be avalible in our hand? Is it now avalible?

[lramos15]

It is already available yes.