Cursor crashes for specific workspace

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

when i try to open a specific workspace in cursor, it just crashes, how can i get logs to see why this is happening?

Steps to Reproduce

happens on my local machine

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 2.6.22
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: c6285feaba0ad62603f7c22e72f0a170dc8415a0
Date: 2026-03-27T15:59:31.561Z (4 days ago)
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.2.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

5

Hey, thanks for the report. This pattern, crashing on one specific workspace while others work fine, is something we have seen before on macOS.

Let’s try a few things.

  1. Get the logs

Logs are here:

~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/logs/

Look for the most recent main.log and renderer.log. They should have crash details.

  1. Quick workarounds to try
  • Launch Cursor from Terminal with extensions disabled to rule them out:
    cursor --disable-extensions /path/to/your/workspace
  • Also try:
    cursor --disable-gpu /path/to/your/workspace
  1. Clear workspace storage, likely fix

This pattern is often caused by corrupted composer data in the workspace database. You can fix it by deleting the workspace storage for that specific workspace.

  • Open ~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage/
  • Find the folder that matches your workspace. You can check workspace.json inside each folder
  • Delete that folder
  • Reopen the workspace

You will lose chat history for that workspace, but it should open normally again.

If it still crashes after clearing workspace storage, share the logs from step 1 and I will dig deeper.