Clear recent projects

[Southclaws]

I accidentally opened my drive's root as a "project" and now every time I open Zed it opens / and tries to index my entire computer!

Is there a way to clear the recent projects list? I can't find anything in the zed/ config folder. Is it stored in some system wide config registry on mac/windows?

[NicoAdrian]

Have the same problem. Even when clicking on "Remove from project", opening Zed again still opens it

[SomeoneToIgnore]

There's no user-facing way for that yet.

Whatever survives between Zed restarts, is stored in the ~/Library/Application Support/Zed/db/${INSTANCE_NAME}/db.sqlite file.
Specifically, this is stored in workspaces, paths are in workspace_location.

Those are blobs, though but some GUI might help with browsing it (notice the right side):

so you can alter entries there (or remove the whole db file), or you can submit a PR to fix those.
We get the values from db using this:

zed/crates/workspace/src/persistence.rs

Lines 423 to 430 in 8263da0

	query! {
	fn recent_workspaces() -> Result<Vec<(WorkspaceId, WorkspaceLocation)>> {
	SELECT workspace_id, workspace_location
	FROM workspaces
	WHERE workspace_location IS NOT NULL
	ORDER BY timestamp DESC
	}
	}

and there's already a delete_stale_workspace method for removing a workspace by ID, so all that's needed — some gui adjustments in the recent_projects.rs that call this method.

[Southclaws]

Awesome thanks! I'll take a crack at doing a PR to add this as a command palette item if that's cool!

[NicoAdrian]

@Southclaws Great ! Would be cool if you could tell me here if/when you did it :-)
Thanks

[Southclaws]

Unfortunately I didn't manage to get it figured out in time, bit too busy annoyingly!

[ikurotime]

Hello! If its possible, I will try to submit this, I already managed to locate the proper files. Any guidance / tip is welcomed, though!

[SomeoneToIgnore]

To note, there's some discussion happening here: #7426