Auto-Logged Out on Restart, Now Chat History Won't Load After Logging Back in for Any Projects

[wearywas]

It seems chat history is broken for me as of this morning.

Check the forum to ensure the issue hasn’t been reported already

• Not finding anything recent about chat history, though I am seeing some login issues – weekend server issues of some sort?

Provide a clear description of the bug

• I was working in a project like normal in Cursor this morning and restarted the program in case while troubleshooting there were any caching bugs ( ye olde “have you tried turning it off and on again” standard). Upon restart, it wanted me to log in (which hasn’t happened before that I can remember in months of using Cursor), and ran me through the various new user/getting started flow after I logged in (which seemed odd). Now, the chat history won’t load for any of my chats, in any project/folder. I’ve tried restarting my PC entirely – no luck there.

Explain how to reproduce the bug (if known)

• N/A (no clue what triggered this differently than usual)

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• All of my chats load at the bottom in the history panel as usual – but when I click them, it just loads a blank window. This happens in every project/folder where I have various chat histories.
  
  
  
  
  

Tell us your operating system and your Cursor version (e.g., Windows, 0.x.x).
Windows, Cursor Version 0.49.6

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• Historical context is essential – so this pretty much halts all projects and progress till I can access prior chat histories again.

[bulinyangzi]

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Apparently, they haven’t fixed it for over a month, which is an epic failure.

[newman8r]

broken for me too. ridiculous. might be the last straw for me on cursor, this is really bad.

[jjstafford (Jameson Stafford)]

Same issue here. This is really not ok for a paid product.

I can understand bugs, and things don’t work as expected, but losing your entire chat history is completely unacceptable.

How hard is it to store freakin data on a hard drive and not lose it?

Env:

VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 7ae22cf8cd5af9e08b62585dd03d10f5f610acf0
Date: 2025-05-13T02:21:11.278Z
Electron: 34.3.4
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.18.3
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

[wearywas]

Found a couple others and commented there with further troubleshooting the other day:

Can't load past chat after updating to a newer version

Did anyone ever find a general fix? I think I just ran into this today: Auto-Logged Out on Restart, Now Chat History Won't Load After Logging Back in for Any Projects I went digging in Cursor a bit deeper and I’m seeing the same errors generate (with my own file paths) as LorisFriedal in this window upon trying to load any past chat: [image] Tried troubleshooting this in Cursor itself – the Auto-agent response: [image] [image] I’ve already tried 1 & 2. I just tried 3 (renaming the two c…

How to Recover Chat History from Cursor Files?

Good morning! I’m down the rabbit hole trying to restore my chat history for ~5 months of work in Cursor across different projects after it randomly decided to stop loading for me following an auto-log out after restart this morning (): Can't load past chat after updating to a newer version - #6 by wearywas I’ve tried installing that extension but it seems like it would only be able to restore new chat sessions moving forward from what I can tell – is there something I’m missing f…

It seems like chat history would be recoverable/not completely wiped given that you can still see the names of the past chats, but it doesn’t seem like anyone’s found a retroactive fix yet for recovering their chat histories with this type of bug yet though from what I’ve found, so it’s hard to say. For now I guess I’ll just have to work from the assumption that all prior chat context is gone (RIP).

[wearywas]

Interesting – so, I’m guessing something under the hood ahead of the .50 update, released widely today (which apparently lets you export chats), is probably what caused this – but I still can’t load old chats to export them:

So, ironically, in the quest for exporting chat history, we lost my chat history. Any word yet on recovering corrupted chat history? The chat names still exist (as mentioned before), they just don’t load.