Chat is stuck loading and window is unresponsive

Bug Reports
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Describe the Bug

The chat pane refuses to load and causes the window to be unresponsive. No matter if I reopen, close or keep waiting, I cannot dismiss the chat and now I can’t open the project directory.

Steps to Reproduce

Unsure. Chat froze after answering a question and never recovered.

Expected Behavior

I would like to cancel/stop the current chat and open a new one.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

1.1.6
1.96.2
5b19bac7a947f54e4caa3eb7e4c5fbf832389850

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Hey, this issue is usually related to a large chat history in your project. To solve the problem, try manually deleting most of the history, possibly the oldest chats. You can also try renaming or moving the project. This will help you quickly clear the history.

Additionally, you can delete the history by navigating to this path and sorting the folders by modification date. Choose the one that was used recently, you can delete it or save a backup just in case:

Windows: %APPDATA%\Cursor\User\workspaceStorage
macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage
Linux: ~/.config/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage

If your history is important to you, you can try exporting it using this extension: