After an update, the sidebar index that maps chats to their titles can get overwritten for a specific workspace, which is why you’re seeing “New Chat” entries instead of your actual titles. The good news is the underlying chat data is almost certainly still on disk.
To check, open a terminal and run:
ls ~/.cursor/projects/
Find the folder matching your affected project — inside it, check for an agent-transcripts/ directory with .jsonl files. If those files exist, your conversation data is preserved on disk even though the sidebar isn’t showing it.
A couple of things worth trying:
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Reload the window -
Cmd+Shift+P> Developer: Reload Window -
Reopen the project using File > Open Folder with the exact same folder path you were using before the update
Our team is tracking this and working on a fix. Unfortunately there’s no manual reimport step available right now.
You may also find this related thread helpful - other users reported the same issue with additional recovery details.