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…

Still happening. I need to do a commit now before opening cursor or every time I close cursor because it will pop up all these changes the next time I open that need to be accepted/discarded and it is impossible to track what chat these changes come from. Alternatively, can use the timeline featur…

This thing is driving me crazy.

Ok, I got tired waiting for a fix and conducted some research on my own. And it ended up in a PowerShell script which helps me in dealing with the bug outcome. What the script does: It runs at the launch of Cursor IDE, i.e. immediately after the file(s) get corrupted. It checks current status of …

And a root cause of the corruption: Cursor’s AI edit / Composer keeps “pending” edits in a checkpoint cache in the global state.vscdb SQLite DB. For each edit it stores file content as line arrays (one string per line). On restart, Cursor reapplies pending diffs for files that were never fully acc…

Thanks for the research. Hopefully this info can make it to the Cursor team, so they can fix this @deanrie I have accepted all pending changes, and yet it still happens when I start up Cursor.

For me it works, but unreliable. For example - I have 11 files which get corrupted on each restart. The script fixes all these files and lists them in the Problems window at Cursor startup. I click each file in the Problems window to open it, click Keep All button then repeat the same for remaining …

This issue is still present on the most recent update: Version: 2.6.19 (system setup) VSCode Version: 1.105.1 Commit: 224838f96445be37e3db643a163a817c15b36060 Date: 2026-03-12T04:07:27.435Z Build Type: Stable Release Track: Default Electron: 39.4.0 Chromium: 142.0.7444.265 Node.js: 22.22.0 …

Still an issue. This is enormously frustrating since we wind up having to fix files that don’t even include real changes. We use CRLF line endings on Windows. When Cursor starts, it indexes the files.. during this phase.. it is touching the files and changing the line endings.. Why on earth does Cur…

[FIXED] Hi everyone, i fixed it using agent in Cursor, he wrote this instructions for you: I was struggling with the exact same issue in my Unity project on Windows. Every time I launched Cursor, it would touch several specific files (like Player.cs and Vehicle.cs), completely rewriting them in the…

Thank you for the instructions, but this is NOT a fix, it’s a work-around. You configure both git and IDE to to use LF line endings, which is not a standard on Windows and it may cause issues if you use other applications to read/write your project files. For example, we use clang-format to enforce …

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

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

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