I’d like to report a bug that I’ve been dealing with for about a month. I kept waiting for it to be fixed, but it doesn’t seem like anything is changing. Bug description: Every time I restart Cursor, it shows a list of files as “modified / needs saving”, even though I didn’t change anything. What…

are these all your gitingore files?

Thank you very much for wanting to help Not at all, just regular files, something different every time. [image] Casey Salmon: are these all your gitingore files?

ok i have the same thing going on then, when i reboot i have 172 files that i need to commit and push and the number grows. they tend to be a lot of .md files so i thought it maybe was gitignore and i was doing something wrong.

[image] Casey Salmon: so i thought it maybe was gitignore and i was doing something wrong. Unfortunately it’s not, it’s a bug in the cursor, the problem is that their comment system is a bit difficult for people, and people prefer to wait for someone else to complain…

Yeah this is a real issue, and makes Cursor unusable: [image] Saving files on project load Bug Reports Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Opening an existing project, Cursor starts saving loads of files Steps to Reproduc…

[image] mwjt42: and makes Cursor unusable: I started to have a routine. Don’t exit cursor before commit Restart, reset to last commit, because I have no idea what he changed there for me

Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known issue and the team is working on a fix. The bug has been confirmed by multiple users. Files that Agent or Composer previously edited get marked as modified when the IDE starts, usually due to EOF or whitespace changes. Related reports: Cursor modifying …

This should be fixed in version 2.3.x.

[image] Dean Rie: A Git diff for one of the flagged files (screenshot or text). Is it whitespace and newlines, or actual code changes? Most of the time there was no real change. But I got tired of checking. [image] Dean Rie: Are you using WSL or native Windows? Windows [image] De…

Hey, I know how frustrating this is. Version 2.3.x is already rolling out. Updates are usually released in stages, so it can take 1 to 3 days to reach all users. Keep an eye on the update notification in Cursor, or check manually via Help > Check for Updates. Let me know if the issue still happens…

Cursor creates phantom unsaved changes on every restart (requires discarding multiple files)

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mwjt42 December 28, 2025, 9:19am 6

Yeah this is a real issue, and makes Cursor unusable:

@deanrie are we any closer to a fix?

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Cursor creates phantom unsaved changes on every restart (requires discarding multiple files)

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