Welcome to hide-files-toggle

Hide Files from explorer for vscodium and vscode with toggle button in status bar.

This is an extension for vscodium and vscode.

Creates a sidebar pane to handle hidden files as per files.exclude entry in .vscode/settings.json file.

Main features

• Displays the content of files.exclude field
• Hide file / folder from explorer
• Add / Remove / Rename items
• Single / Multiple folders in workspace
• Auto-update on .vscode/settings.json and workspace changes
• Toggle all hidden files from status bar

Installation

The extension is available in Open VSX Registry as well as VS Code Marketplace.

For a manual install, download latest vsix file. Go to Extensions > Install from VSIX... and select downloaded file.

Usage

Dependencies

• vscode-icons

Author

Sébastien Guerri - gitlab page

Issues

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!

Feel free to check issues page. You can also contact me.

License

Copyright (C) 2023 Sebastien Guerri

Copyright (C) 2025 Przemysław Czerkas

hide-files-toggle is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

hide-files-toggle is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with hide-files-toggle. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.