The last coup[le of times I’ve restarted cursor, after i close the program, i return to find it uninstalled entirely. Upon reinstall, all my settings and chat/agent history remains intact as well as my settings and customization. So it’s not so much destructive as it is entirely annoying and a waste of good dev time. Anyone else having this issue? Is there a work around or a fix?
While we’re at it, my cursor terminal has stopped working. I’m having to use the windows terminal to execute commands. The cursor terminal acts like node, or next, or react or any number of dependencies, aren’t installed. won’t run PNPM commands, won’t run scripts. This all began after the implementation of the agents option.
It is happening every time i close cursor and attempt to reopen. I have to reinstall the software each time. Anyone eon the cursor team seeing this? Obviously, this is problem for me…
Same issue, first time it happened I reinstalled from the version I already had downloaded, now going to download a fresh copy. I think it’s a windows thing
Can you confirm if there was an update waiting to occur before you restarted?
I’ve got a theory that when you shut down Windows, Windows attempts to close Cursor and Cursor then attempts to update itself, but doesn’t finish before Windows shuts down entirely, meaning you’re left with Cursor not installed on the machine.
Just sharing something I observed in case it helps anyone who ends up at this thread. Probably specific to Windows.
I think I originally installed Cursor for my user only, which installs the executable in “…AppData\Local\Programs\cursor“.
After the first time Cursor was seemingly uninstalled, I installed it at the machine level, which was installed at “C:\Program Files\cursor“.
Since then, every time I restarted my machine my Cursor taskbar shortcut no-longer worked; the cursor.exe wasn’t where the shortcut expected it to be.
Re-installing Cursor fixed it until my machine was restarted again.
What I’ve just realized is, the taskbar shortcut is still looking in “…AppData\Local\Programs\cursor“, and the exe is not there. But I’ve been re-installing Cursor at the machine level.
For some reason, when I install it at the machine level and “start Cursor immediately” at the end of the install process, it opens and the taskbar item becomes active, even though that taskbar shortcut is pointing to a different exe.
That is what was giving me the impression that it was being uninstalled after restart; once Cursor has been closed, the taskbar shortcut no-longer works.
Simple solution is, when the shortcut doesn’t work and it asks you if you want to remove it, click “Yes” instead of foolishly keeping the broken shortcut like I did.