Describe the Bug Since the Cursor staff wants to pretend this isn’t an issue and unlist my previous thread, I’ll just keep posting it until they keep their word and look into the issue. Cursor crashes with the innodb error every single ■■■■■■■■ time. It’s been like this for months. And you keep rel…

And before anybody says I shouldn’t use that GitHub: I got it from THIS forum Cursor’s OWN STAFF said to use it: [image]

Its happening because 2 versions of the same update is attempting to install. When running cursor and trying to update, check Task Manager and search for cursor, you will see 2 setups running, kill the bottom one to update Cursor. They’re aware of the bug. @deanrie

I’ve read the threads, I know why it happens and obviously have found workarounds, but it doesn’t make it any easier to use, especially when the Cursor team for some insanely dumb reason pushes out an update nearly every single solitary day. [image] This is not the sign of a healthy development t…

You could turn off the updates if they annoy you that much.

There’s NO option to disable auto-update, isn’t it funny how that works? :roll_eyes::roll_eyes::roll_eyes::roll_eyes: I finally tracked down a thread on Reddit that provided a way; we’ll see if it ACTUALLY works, since there’s users saying they still had auto-updates happening even after this: …

You can: [image] Disable Automatic Updates How To Hey, although I don’t recommend disabling updates, I can understand your point of view when stability is important. You might consider updating later, but keep in mind that you could miss out on new features an…

I’m only doing it so I can literally use the product. I’m stunned this team can’t figure this out. I guess its just proof that the more things change, the more things stay the same…LLMs didn’t move the needle at all.

I think I have encountered this issue couple months ago. Try to look for the tutorial on how to delete cursor from your system. Some files gets stuck in your system even after uninstall and you have to delete them manually. Find those files . Erase them . Reinstall cursor then you will be able to…

Cursor CANNOT update, even after complete clean install

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Cursor CANNOT update, even after complete clean install

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