Search: Exclude setting is not being respected in my workspace.

[futuremotiondev]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No
Yes

• VS Code Version:
  Version: 1.82.2 (user setup)
  Commit: abd2f3d
  Date: 2023-09-14T05:55:25.390Z
  Electron: 25.8.1
  ElectronBuildId: 23779380
  Chromium: 114.0.5735.289
  Node.js: 18.15.0
  V8: 11.4.183.29-electron.0
  OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

• OS Version:
  Windows 10 Pro x64 Version 22H2 (Build 19045.3448)

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Add workspace folders to the Search: Exclude setting:

2. Perform a search and notice that search results are still returning results from the excluded folders:

3. Just to add some additional information, this is my workspace settings file:

Am I doing something wrong? Why isn't this working?

[andreamah]

There currently isn't any way of excluding a whole workspace root in a multi-root workspace from those settings. You'd need to use the files to exclude field in the search widget and exclude it like ./00 External/*. Adding the ability to exclude in search.exclude is tracked here #50638

/duplicate #50638