Import Profile feature does not finishes the process (looping)

[alefragnani]

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

• VS Code Version: 1.97.0
• OS Version: macOS Sequoia

Hi,

I was organizing my profiles, between Stable and Insiders release installations, and when I tried to import one to another, the Import process wasn't actually finishing, resulting in an loop experience.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Export a profile from VS Code Insiders
2. Import a profile to VS Code
3. Click Create
4. You can see the progress / toast saying it is installing extensions...
5. The progress / toast finishes
6. The Create button remains enabled and the unsaved profile indicators also remains there.

8. Click to close the profile and a modal window (to save profile changes) is show, even without changing anything after importing the profile

10. Click save
11. The same progress / toast appears, installing extensions for the profile
12. The progress / toast finishes
13. But the Create button remains
14. You notice the loopI have tried the same process a few times, closing and reopening VS Code, and at some time, the profile appeared, even without the saving/importing process finishing with success

Thanks in advance

[v0y4g3r]

Stuck on the same problem. This makes it impossible to synchronize configuration between vscode on different machines.

[Aleal2]

Same issue when trying to sync my extensions on a new machine. VSCode version: 1.98.2 (universal) Mac OSx: Sonoma 14.7.4

[ptous]

Same problem here. Version 1.99.0 on Sequoia 15.3.2 (arm64). Also experienced it on Debian 12 aarch64.

Edit: This is pretty clearly a problem with one or more extensions, as the import works if I switch extensions to "Default" or "None". But since there's no error reporting or logging (that I could find), and no way to cherry pick which extensions you want to pull in from the imported file, figuring out which extensions are problematic won't be simple.

Edit2: For what it's worth, a most-recent version of code-server imported the same profile without complaint or looping. (I was sort of hoping for it to fail and log the problem to the console.)

[williamchiu-nmic]

Is there an update on the bug? I'm having the same issue on VS Code 1.100.2 and Windows 11 24H2. I think the import profile from file method fails if the profile contains VS code extensions that are not compatible with the current version of VS Code. I think the behavior should be that an error message pops up and says which extensions are incompatible. Right now, the import fails silently.

[Aleal2]

My solution was to open the list of extensions on the profile and installing each one manually from the extensions tab. After that the import worked for me.

[eleqtrizit]

I just had this problem. Happy to provide failing config for someone to test.