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How to I stop 'Reveal in explorer' from revealing in the 'Open Editors' pane

When I right click on a tab and click 'reveal in explorer' - it just highlights the file in the 'Open Editors' pane. It used to reveal the file in the main pane which shows the file structure of your project. Super annoying. The entire point of the 'reveal in explorer' button is to show you the file location in your editor...

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Managed to find others with the issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/110188

Basically it occurs when vscode thinks the file you are trying to open is not in your project.

Reopening the project root folder with 'file -> open folder' solved the issue for me.

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interesting. I couldn't reproduce this issue.

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