Codebase chat ignoring .cursorignore

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Describe the Bug

Codebase chat is searching files that should be excluded based on .cursorignore

Steps to Reproduce

I have included my python env folder (app_env/) in .cursorignore but despite that every time I do codebase chat it is searching through files in my env folder.

Expected Behavior

Search should ignore files in .cursorignore

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 0.44.9
VSCode Version: 1.93.1
Commit: 316e524257c2ea23b755332b0a72c50cf23e1b00
Date: 2024-12-26T21:58:59.149Z
Electron: 30.5.1
Chromium: 124.0.6367.243
Node.js: 20.16.0
V8: 12.4.254.20-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631

Additional Information

my python env “app_env” is included in .cursorignore like this:

dist/
build/
Test/
app_exe/
installer/
app_env/
**/.env/
**/venv/
**/pycache/
*.pyc

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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mine still works fine

3

After I tried 7749 times, the result was that it could not reject the folder, it could only reject files with clear extensions like *.js *.py t

4

I deleted the index and then recomputed and now it’s working. I guess Resync Index wasn’t enough.

5

if you have the folder and put it in cursorignore it wont ignore i tried