I am fairly new to Cursor, having recently made the switch from VS Code, Claude-Dev and Aider. Everyone on Twitter and Youtube constantly singing its praises, so here we are… As some others have stated, when working a greenfield project and trying to build the structure of a project, it is a life …

thank you for reporting this we are looking into it and it will be fixed by next build

Can I get some info on the cause and how to clean up my existing project? I am stuck and screwed until this is resolved.

Yes, this is a major issue. I’m using React and somehow Composer doesn’t know what files are in the project, even with a codebase refresh and using @codebase. It’s constantly referring to files I’ve long deleted. The file search to add to composer returns results from a folder I deleted a week ago.

Hi @ChiefRemote I’m here. Thanks for the information. The Cursor team is already working on fixing the issue.

About a week ago I had it repeatedly creating a new folder in my python project directory and in it creating duplicately named files to files already existing in the root of my project folder… and then writing new code to them, sometimes duplicate code sometimes not. And despite my catching on to t…

hi, in our new 0.41 update, we’ve added checkpoints to help with cases of composer writing unwanted code and created unwanted files/folders. i would recommend next time this occurs to you, checkout to a prev state and start from there. checking out to a prev state will undo the composer changes and …

@balta Thanks for the update. A couple of questions: Who can I contact to get credits for my wasted requests? I first started seeing Cursor Composes fail when it appeared to be making code changes but I was seeing no real effect. Turns out it was making changes to the wrong files. See my origin…

Sorry for this! Could you message me the email you use for Cursor so I can issue a refund? We are continuously working on having better code generation so composer changes the correct files. For the next update we will also explicitly show the directory of the files the composer is changing in cas…

Composer has gotten wacky!

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ChiefRemote September 11, 2024, 6:10pm 4

Hello? Anyone here from Cursor support?

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When is the next release?

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Composer has gotten wacky!

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