Add existing item not working.

Question

_{Sunday, August 14, 2016 3:32 PM}

So I've been trying to add an existing item for a while now, however everytime I click 'add' it doesn't add and doesn't give any popup indicator for an error or anything. It just doesn't do anything, why isn't it working?

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_{Monday, August 15, 2016 9:42 AM ✅Answered}

Hi FacelessTiger,

According to your description, please create a new project such as a C# project A, add a test.cs file to the folder of project A.

Right-click the project name-> choose Add->Existing Item->select test.cs file->Add

Please check whether this process works in your side.

If yes, this problem may be caused by your project you opened. Such as the project was created by previous VS. You could create a new project and copy the contents from the old to the new.

If no, please refer to the following steps:

1). You could add different types files from different paths to check whether this issues appears again.

2). Please start your VS in safe mode (devenv /SafeMode), which could prevent all third-party VSPackages from loading when Visual Studio starts, thus ensuring stable execution.

3). Please check the ActiveLog.xml (VS2015) under the path of %AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0. This file will log all operations when you operate Visual Studio. Please observe whether have some errors in it.

Sincerely,

Oscar

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_{Sunday, August 14, 2016 4:18 PM | 1 vote}

Hi,

you you give us the error?

Do you have write rights on the folder of the project? When you add a file outside the project / solution folder, then the file is copied.

With kind regards,

Konrad

_{Sunday, August 14, 2016 5:24 PM}

For the error it doesn't show an error, just closes the window and acts as if the item was added even though it wasn't. I just checked and I do have write rights on the folder of the projects as well as read writes on everything I want to add. 

Thank you

FacelessTiger