Hi folks, I updated Cursor today and one of my projects is now missing its Chat/Composer history.
I did “Update cursor” and it auto-closed all my open projects/workspaces/windows to update except this one, because this one had an unsaved file. So that “paused” the update and it asked me whether I wanted to save the file. I deleted the unsaved file (didn’t need it), then closed Cursor and the update proceeded automatically.
Now upon re-opening, the chat and composer histories are just missing from that one project (the one that stayed open due to the unsaved file).
Histories are NOT missing from my projects that were auto-closed. But they are now missing from this one. I had a LOT of history in this project so please would very much appreciate help to recover them here!
Running version 0.45.15 now on MacOS 15.3.1
Okay I think I figured it out, and I don’t know if this is a bug or not (I’m not sure how standard VSCode handles it), but it’s definitely a gotcha if anyone encounters this:
I believe that after Cursor updated, I opened a new window and opened up my project directory.
However, that seems to have loaded the directory but NOT the workspace (project.code-workspace). So Cursor created a new chat history and failed to recognize that there is a workspace file in the directory and that it should thus open the workspace and not create a new history.
Whether this is a bug or not I don’t know, but it’s possible that if anyone else encounters seemingly-disappeared chat histories, they’ve inadvertently opened the project directory without opening the workspace, or vice versa.
At the very least, as a feature request, it would be valuable for Cursor to automatically equate these in the future, given the importance of our chat history logs.