local history greyed out. Why?
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I have these files in LocalHistory:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 andrew andrew 40588 Oct 18 11:17 changes.storageData
-rw-rw-r-- 1 andrew andrew 3488 Oct 18 11:17 changes.storageRecordIndex
The VCS->Local History->Show History menu item is greyed out. Why?
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These files may not have data for the current project.
why is the menu item greyed out? I thought it saved 5 days of history by default? That's what the registry says.
The history may be corrupted or may not have data for the current directory.
I had the same issue, and it turns out files with unknown extensions are never put in history. I had to make the extensions known by adding them to a known file type (e.g. "Text", or you can add your own file type). Found via https://stackoverflow.com/a/56142697
Necroposting because this is the top google result.