"Explorer" tab/window disapears in sidebar

[vdrasutis]

Type: Bug

"Explorer" tab disapears in sidebar, always have to click "Ctrl + Shift +E" to oopen window.

VS Code version: Code 1.78.2 (b3e4e68a0bc097f0ae7907b217c1119af9e03435, 2023-05-10T14:39:26.248Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22621 Modes: Sandboxed: Yes

System Info

|Item|Value| |---|---| |CPUs|12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700H (20 x 2688)| |GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
vulkan: disabled_off
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled
webgpu: enabled| |Load (avg)|undefined| |Memory (System)|31.71GB (15.24GB free)| |Process Argv|--folder-uri file:///c%3A/dev/git/geo/geotrunk/Geo/DataExplorerFiles --crash-reporter-id 5ad273e2-820a-47db-9905-d72114969826| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%|

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A/B Experiments

``` vsliv368cf:30146710 vsreu685:30147344 python383:30185418 vspor879:30202332 vspor708:30202333 vspor363:30204092 vslsvsres303:30308271 vserr242cf:30382550 pythontb:30283811 vsjup518:30340749 pythonptprofiler:30281270 vshan820:30294714 vstes263:30335439 vscoreces:30445986 pythondataviewer:30285071 vscod805cf:30301675 binariesv615:30325510 bridge0708:30335490 bridge0723:30353136 cmake_vspar411:30581797 vsaa593cf:30376535 pythonvs932:30410667 cppdebug:30492333 vsclangdf:30486550 c4g48928:30535728 dsvsc012:30540252 pynewext54:30695312 azure-dev_surveyone:30548225 282f8724:30602487 pyind779:30671433 f6dab269:30613381 pythonsymbol12:30671437 a9j8j154:30646983 showlangstatbar:30737416 vsctsb:30705553 azdwalk:30721579 pythonms35:30701012 pythonfmttext:30731395 pythoncmv:30739700 fixhidewlkth:30730051 hidesbindicator:30730055 pythongtdpathcf:30739705 ```

[gjsjohnmurray]

Please see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/181877#issuecomment-1541223025

[lramos15]

Closing as a duplicate of #181877, let us know if this doesn't fix your problem :)

[vdrasutis]

solved