Bug Report with unclosed chat

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

A new chat cannot be closed

show that

“Chat could not be loaded
The chat data may have bbeen deleted or is deleted”

Steps to Reproduce

summarize the long context and it happened

Expected Behavior

It should not be happen

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 2.4.27 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 4f2b772756b8f609e1354b3063de282ccbe7a690
Date: 2026-01-31T21:24:58.143Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.2.7
Chromium: 142.0.7444.235
Node.js: 22.21.1
V8: 14.2.231.21-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

For AI issues: which model did you use?

Opus 4.5

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

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Hey, thanks for the report.

Known issue: workspace storage can get corrupted after the chat crashes.

Workaround for macOS:

  1. Fully quit Cursor
  2. Open ~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage/
  3. Find the folder for the workspace you need (you can sort by “Date Modified”, it should be the most recent one)
  4. Delete state.vscdb and state.vscdb.backup from that folder
  5. Start Cursor and open the project again

Downside: you’ll lose chat history and open tabs for that workspace.

Similar thread with the same fix: Unclosable "new chat" into cursor being unable to load

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