[BUG] - Activation fails if `projectManager.git.baseFolders` contains an invalid path

Environment/version

Version: 1.82.0-insider Commit: a0377f0c51dbb2d3188565cdf35e89929f864e65 Date: 2023-08-24T05:32:35.024Z Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Code-Insiders/1.82.0-insider Chrome/114.0.5735.289 Electron/25.5.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce

VSCode settings are sync'ed on two separate machines using the built-in Setting Sync service. My Git projects are in differen paths on these two machines:

PC1: C:\Git
PC2: E:\Git

In my user settings I have

    "projectManager.git.baseFolders": [
        "C:\\Git\\",
        "E:\\Git\\"
    ],

Git projects are not shown because of this error (from Extension Host):

2023-08-24 13:37:12.228 [error] Activating extension alefragnani.project-manager failed due to an error:
2023-08-24 13:37:12.228 [error] Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat 'E:\Git\'
    at lstatSync (node:fs:1595:3)
    at Object.t.lstatSync (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:2:3729)
    at Function.handleSymlinks (c:\Users\carloc\.vscode-insiders\extensions\alefragnani.project-manager-12.7.0\dist\extension.js:1:113300)
    at t.CustomProjectLocator.locateProjects (c:\Users\carloc\.vscode-insiders\extensions\alefragnani.project-manager-12.7.0\dist\extension.js:1:87907)
    at t.AutodetectProvider.showTreeView (c:\Users\carloc\.vscode-insiders\extensions\alefragnani.project-manager-12.7.0\dist\extension.js:1:99533)
    at t.Providers.showTreeViewFromAllProviders (c:\Users\carloc\.vscode-insiders\extensions\alefragnani.project-manager-12.7.0\dist\extension.js:1:103545)
    at e.activate (c:\Users\carloc\.vscode-insiders\extensions\alefragnani.project-manager-12.7.0\dist\extension.js:1:176061)
    at E.n (c:\Users\carloc\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code Insiders\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:107:6206)
    at E.m (c:\Users\carloc\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code Insiders\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:107:6169)
    at E.l (c:\Users\carloc\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code Insiders\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:107:5626)

For a number of reasons I cannot unify those paths:

PC1 does not have a drive E; I guess I could fake it with subst but then I would still have the same problem on other machines
PC2 does not have enough disk space on C to safely keep all my projects there and symlinks do not work properly

I understand there might be workarounds but it would be really great if the extension could just use valid paths from the array and ignore the rest rather than failing

alefragnani / vscode-project-manager

[BUG] - Activation fails if `projectManager.git.baseFolders` contains an invalid path #702