Tab Archive

• Automatically archives tabs that have not been used for a defined length of time — 12 hours, by default.

• Only archives tabs if the group contains more than a defined number of tabs — 5, by default.

• Doesn't archive tabs that have changes, tabs that are pinned, and the active tab of each group.

The age of the opened tabs is persisted when the workspace is closed, and resumes incrementing when the workspace is reopened.

Commands

In addition to automatically archiving unused tabs, the extension provides the following commands.

Tab Archive: Archive as many tabs as possible

Archive all tabs except the 5 (by default) most recently used ones, in each group. (It also doesn't archive tabs with changes, pinned tabs, and the active one.)

Tab Archive: List recently archived tabs

List the tabs that have been automatically archived since the workspace was opened. Use it to adjust the tabarchive.numberOfTabsInGroup and tabarchive.tabAgeForAutomaticArchiving settings if you find that tabs are archived more/less often than you wish.

Settings

tabarchive.activation

Can be one of two values:

• everywhere-except-excluded: the extension will automatically archive unused tabs in all workspaces, except the ones present in the Excluded list;
• nowhere-except-included: the extension will automatically archive unused tabs only in the workspaces present in the Included list.

The default value is everywhere-except-excluded.

Note: this way of activating tab auto-archiving allows you to do it on a per project/workspace basis, without relying on a project's .vscode/settings.json file, as this file is often committed and shared with collaborators.

tabarchive.excludedWorkspaces

This setting is only used when tabarchive.activation is equal to everywhere-except-excluded.

List of workspaces in which the extension will not automatically archive unused tabs.

To add a workspace to this list, use the command Tab Archive: Deactivate automatic archiving of unused tabs for this workspace.

tabarchive.includedWorkspaces

This setting is only used when tabarchive.activation is equal to nowhere-except-included.

List of workspaces in which the extension will automatically archive unused tabs.

To add a workspace to this list, use the command Tab Archive: Activate automatic archiving of unused tabs for this workspace.

tabarchive.numberOfTabsInGroup

Unused tabs will be archived only if the number of tabs in the group is greater than this number; enter 0 to archive all unused tabs.

The default value is 5.

tabarchive.tabAgeForAutomaticArchiving

Number of hours after which an unused tab is automatically archived.

The default value is 12.