VSCode Portable - Extensions Are Not !

[ibrahimmd90]

Type: Feature Request

Extensions are not portable with VS Code portable folder.
Here are simple steps to repeat the issue:

• Download ZIP file of VS Code, extract it.
• Add an empty folder 'data' inside the extracted folder. This way I get portable VS code
• Add extensions.
• Restart VS Code, all extensions are working.
• Move the folder of VS code or change folder name.
• Run VS Code. no extensions are there !

After investigation, I found that the reason is extensions.json file inside the folder data\extensions which has absolute paths to where the vs code was located when we installed the extensions.

Expected behavior: Paths are relative to the folder where Code.exe exists.

VS Code version: Code 1.74.2 (e8a3071, 2022-12-20T10:29:14.590Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
Modes:
Sandboxed: No

[gjsjohnmurray]

/duplicate of #169006

[vscodenpa]

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