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VSCode not offering automatic updates #210132

Open JorensM opened 5 months ago

JorensM commented 5 months ago

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

I have set my update mode setting to start and have an outdated version of VSCode, but yet, when I restart VSCode, I don't receive any notification or anything offering me to update it.

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VSCodeTriageBot commented 5 months ago

Thanks for creating this issue! It looks like you may be using an old version of VS Code, the latest stable release is 1.88.0. Please try upgrading to the latest version and checking whether this issue remains.

Happy Coding!

gjsjohnmurray commented 5 months ago

On the Output tab of Panel, does the Main channel show any [info] messages beginning with update#?

Are you perhaps using Run as Administrator to launch your VS Code?

Do you have a Check for Updates... option in the Manage (gearwheel) menu?

JorensM commented 5 months ago

@gjsjohnmurray so I read a bit about it and it seems that auto updates don't work if you run VSCode as administrator. I need this because otherwise my VSCode terminal won't give me write access. So I can either try to get write access in the VSCode terminal without needing to run as admin (is that possible? I'd prefer this), or I can install VSCode system wide (at least I heard that this lets you use auto update even when running as admin).

Thank you!

IllusionMH commented 5 months ago

You can launch without admin to run update or switch to system install.

What write access is missing in terminal? I'm using VS Code for a long time and haven't encountered such cases yet, therefore curious when it would be required.