Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Opening Cursor (without any user interaction) immediately triggers a background process: Cursor Helper (Plugin): extension-host (retrieval-always-local) This process begins writing large amounts of data to disk continuously. …

Hey, this is a known issue. .pack files in ~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/snapshots/ can grow without limits. Main thread: .pack eating up disk space Just deleting the folder won’t help since the files get recreated as soon as Cursor starts. Right now there’s only one working workaround: rol…

CRITICAL: Cursor Helper (retrieval-always-local) Writing 30GB+ Automatically on Launch (Mac)

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.pack eating up disk space Bug Reports performance	18	618	April 29, 2026
Continuously creation of big pack files Bug Reports checkpoints , performance	5	133	April 7, 2026
Cursor Helper processes never terminate on macOS, causing memory exhaustion and system crashes Bug Reports performance , crashes , macos	2	191	March 17, 2026
Severe memory use / OS “out of application memory” after updating to Cursor 3.0.12 (MacBook Pro M1) Bug Reports performance , macos	2	123	April 28, 2026
Cursor consumes a lot of memory Bug Reports performance	4	102	May 6, 2026

CRITICAL: Cursor Helper (retrieval-always-local) Writing 30GB+ Automatically on Launch (Mac)

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