Import VS Code setting not works for VS Code Insiders

[a-sajjad72 (Sajjad Ali)]

Describe the Bug

I had VS Code Insiders installed on my Windows 11 machine. I was working previously on VS Code for many years, but now I am trying to try out Cursor. For that purpose I installed Cursor and tried to import all of my vscode insiders settings and extensions. Unfortunately, it didn’t worked, even though the button show message “Success” and a notification appears at the bottom right of the window says “Vscode setting imported Successfully”. But nothing get imported.

Why developers are too sure and confident that their import button always work and import setting, so they showed such messages even without verifying that the setting are being imported or importing? Strange isn’t it?

Steps to Reproduce

Install Vs code Insiders and install some extensions.
and then import that settings in cursor

Expected Behavior

The settings, and all the extensions need to imported.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.2.2 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: faa03b17cce93e8a80b7d62d57f5eda6bb6ab9f0
Date: 2025-07-07T06:19:13.016Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26120

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

[deanrie]

Hey. I think you should rename the folders to look like the stable version of VSCode, for example, from Code-insiders to Code, and from .vscode-insiders to .vscode. Then you can revert the names after the import. These folders are located here:

Windows: %APPDATA%\Code-Insiders and %USERPROFILE%\.vscode-insiders.
macOS: $HOME/Library/Application Support/Code-Insiders and ~/.vscode-insiders.
Linux: $HOME/.config/Code-Insiders and ~/.vscode-insiders.

[a-sajjad72 (Sajjad Ali)]

Thanks for your help. I had already figured it out. But it is worth noting that if Cursor will also search for these directories rather than just .vscode and Code. It should be more helpful while migrating from VS Code to Cursor