Certain extensions (e.g. Custom CSS, Solana Beach Theme’s neon glow feature) make modifications that result in a “Your Cursor installation appears to be corrupt. Please reinstall” notice appearing every time you open the app. (This is expected behavior, and is mentioned on the extensions’ marketplace pages.)
Visual Studio Code includes a gear icon that lets you disable this notification from appearing again, but Cursor only lets you dismiss the notification temporarily. It would be great to have the same ability to toggle this notification off permanently!
I was also having this problem after installing “Tabs color” by mondersky, made greatly worse by the fact that even after removing the extension the popup remained. On every single window-launch. Argh!
@dongho-jung I’m very grateful for you mentioning this, your solution solved my pain.
Drag that extension into the extensions panel on the left column of Cursor
Cmd+Shift+P → “Fix Checksums: Apply”
Restart
ironically the extension didn’t even work on my os, so i wasn’t even getting any benefit for having gotten killed as a curious cat.
am just glad my current set of Cursor prefs got another life (and I didn’t need to manually, from scratch, build everything back again to fix the “corruption”)
For anyone else looking at this thread. You need to install the correct “Fix VSCode Checksums Next” made by “RimuruChan”. Like @dongho-jung said. I installed the wrong one initially and it threw me for a loop as to why it was not working.