On mac since updating, I haven’t been able to send one prompt without the application crashing The window terminated unexpectedly (reason: ‘crashed’, code: ‘5’) This is impossible to use, can crash within 10 seconds but averages about 5 seconds before crashing is there nothing that can be done?? …

I think one of the reasons is that you have a lot of chat history. Try opening another project or creating a new one and see how it goes. If you need all your chat history, you can save it in markdown files using this extension: [image] SpecStory (Cursor Extension) - Visual Studio Marketpl…

Cant load Cursor since updating - The window terminated unexpectedly (reason: 'crashed', code: '5')

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deanrie (Dean Rie) February 25, 2025, 5:26pm 2

Hey, this error has appeared for many users recently. Try clearing the cache or reinstalling Cursor.

Cursor 0.47.8 (Linux version) can not startup and CPU 100%

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Cant load Cursor since updating - **The window terminated unexpectedly (reason: 'crashed', code: '5')**

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