Missing bottom toolbar

PlatformIO IDE
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I’ve been using PlatformIO for a few months and all was working fine, but now I don’t see the bottom toolbar with the icons for compile, upload, etc.

I’ve searched prior entries and responses to similar problem, but haven’t found one that restores the toolbar.

Thanks.

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You seem to have some weird workspace setup. You have 3 workspace open at once and you have .code-workspace files in your src – these are not generated by PlatformIO. Where do they come from? Any third-party extensions installed which might conflict here?

First you should right-click on every folder in your work space and remove them from the workspace. Then use the left-side PlatformIO Icon to open PIO Home and re-open the project you want to work on.

What does it look like then?

For reference, in my VSCode it looks like

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Um… since the statusbar is completely missing from the looks of things… have you checked it’s not turned off?

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Thanks for the quick response. Obviously I still have much to learn about Platformio.

I only see the one workspace - Radio_Mailbox_Master Workspace. Each of the subheadings (folders?) under the this Workspace are cloned GITHUB repositories for arduino programs (radio_mailbox_red, radio_mailbox_green, radio_mailbox_Yun_yellow- i deleted the 4th respository).

I have been modifying each of these programs, compiling, uploading, testing, updating GITHUB successfully until now when I no longer see the blue toolbar that you have at the bottom of your screen, which allows me to compile & upload to arduino boards and sync Github.

I am not aware of any conflicts and haven’t loaded any new components to PIO that I’m aware of.

I did as you suggested and then opened an old project I found at PIO home ( I couldn’t find the projects I was working on at PIO home, but they are in a folder on my PC).

Here is what it looks like now. Still no blue toolbar at the bottom of the screen.

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Am I supposed to have one workspace for each program/project?

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Bingo! That fixed it. Thanks very much.

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I built these projects by copying and modifying the files from my first project so could that have caused the .code-workspace files in my src?

Is there a way to get those folders that were not projects built via PIO Home to show up there?

Thanks.

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I’m also missing the bottom blue toolbar. I’m new to VSC & Platform IO.
I’ve been trying to work through some Youtube tutorials, but I’ve never had that activities bar for building, etc. I’m using VSCode v 1.89.1. I didn’t see what wem did to fix it ? I did notice an error in the OUTPUT window of:
[6/2/2024, 5:56:14 PM] Unable to resolve configuration with compilerPath “c:\Users\User1\Downloads\Marlin-2.1.2\Marlin-2.1.2\Marlin 2.1.2 i3-PRO-B\Makefile”. Using “cl.exe” instead. Could that be related ?

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Does this also happen when you create a brand new project?

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Thanks sivar2311, it’s fixed. I deleted ALL previous projects and restarted VSC. After creating a new project the toolbar returned, and I changed the default color theme to Dark (Visual Studio) to make it blue. Why that has now been defaulted to grey, I have no idea ! Thanks again.