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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon GustavoASC

Cannot open file

Open yachty66 opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Describe the bug If I wanna open a file, for example a .docs:

Screen Shot 2022-02-13 at 2 28 43 PM

I experience this issue: (Ethereum is just the .docs which I try to open) Screen Shot 2022-02-13 at 2 31 32 PM

Expected behavior The file opens in VSC

Please complete the following information:

  • VSCode Version [1.61]
  • Extension version [1.3.2]

Additional context VSC has full access (the three checkboxes were checked)

yachty66 avatar Feb 13 '22 13:02 yachty66

Hello @yachty66, thank you very much for opening this issue!

This is a known behavior that specifically happens with Google Workspace files, such as Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, and custom formats regarding the Google Workspace family of products. When it comes to regular files that are not related to Google Workspace (such as .txt, .csv, .png and any other format), they are correctly open and downloaded.

As far as I remember, there is a specific Google Drive API that we could use to download / access these custom files as a traditional .docx, .xlsx, .pptx file. I believe that our problem is similar to this question on Stack Overflow.

I will leave this issue open so that this situation can be resolved in the future. Again, thanks for opening this issue!

GustavoASC avatar Feb 13 '22 16:02 GustavoASC