another post like this which was previously closed : My historical chat history can't be opened, and after clicking it - #7 by danperks and I believe if I don’t mention this points then this post will be closed too without solution.
@danperks I believe that this is a basic software development problem, and not unsolvable. ( chats should be stored in cursor owned and cursor accessible storage and not somewhere where things like OS, antivirus or PC cleaner can clear it. In fact chats should even be encrypted and unreadable by those OS, antivirus or PC cleaner software, it is private application data, if antivirus allows the application, then it allows the data of that application too. ) So this is not a very sophisticated AI problem which needs research team to solve, it is a basic software development problem, which people used to have and used to solve in 2010s too I believe.
and I think if the option is given to visit the history then people will expect to refer to the history. It is frustrating if we create that expectation and then we read that we are not supposed to rely on history, while still getting the option to go back to it, unsuccessfully.
Kindly make a feature request for it or remove the history option at all, to set right expectations.
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some more context of the problem:
It is being faced since last many months now, and by a large number of people. I can see questions about this exact thing on this forum as an active evidence.
Many people don’t come to this forums to mention but they face this issue too, they just give up. Take this for example, if you know Latent Space blogs and podcasts - read the caption of image in this section : How GPT5 + Codex took over Agentic Coding — ft. Greg Brockman, OpenAI