Chat History Inaccessible After Renaming or Moving a Cursor Project Directory!

[Kyars (Kiankyars)]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

I renamed the root of my coding folder and now I have access to none of the chats.

Steps to Reproduce

Create a project folder with a parent folder that has spaces in the folder name. Open this folder within Cursor and chat with it for a bit.

Close the folder in Cursor first. Then close Cursor. Then move the project folder to a different location that does not have any parent folders having spaces in their names. Open Cursor. Then open the project folder that was moved. The chat history should be gone–as if you never chatted before.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.77
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: ba90f2f88e4911312761abab9492c42442117cf0
Date: 2025-11-13T23:10:43.113Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.1.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[deanrie]

Hey, thanks for the report. This is actually expected behavior. Chat history is tied to the folder path, so when you rename or move a project, Cursor treats it as a new workspace.

Your old chats are still stored under:
~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage

To avoid this in the future, you can use the SpecStory extension for automatic backups or export your chats before moving projects.

You can also restore the previous folder name or location, and that should restore the chat history link for that workspace.

[Kyars (Kiankyars)]

That’s fine if it’s expected behavior, but restoring the previous name has not restored the chat history link for the workspace.