Cursor disapeared

Bug Report
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Hello,
I have been using Cursor for a few days now. Today I was using Cursor and had to restart my computer. Upon booting Cursor just was not there anymore.
Anyone else experience a similar issue?

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Hi @Youp ,

Is it the same behaviour that is reported here:

Do you know the Cursor version that was installed before it occurred?

Are you on Windows?

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Hi,
It was the Cursor Setup 0.40.1 - Build 2408245thnycuzj-x64 for windows.

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this happened to me a couple times to me too. the whole directory along with the desktop shortcut disappeared out of nowhere for no reason without even having restarted my computer

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It is possible it is installing an update. Happened to me same thing.

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its still happening any fixes ???

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workaround on linux (if the cause is a renamed Appimage after update) ( /home/user/mybin is in my path and is the current directory )

ln -s cursor-0.40.4-build-2409052yfcjagw2-x86_64.AppImage cursor

this was my initial setup, on update cursor seemed to “delete itself” but actually just “renamed itself” resulting in

cursor .

failing to start.

Relinking to the newly-named AppImage in the directory seems obvious but does not seem to work in my case (the symbolic link remains red). I chalk it up to random linux behavior and remove the cursor symbolic link.

rm /home/user/mybin/cursor
ln -s cursor-0.41.1-build-2409189xe3envg5-x86_64.AppImage cursor

this solved the issue in my case

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So I turned off my PC right after closing Cursor and next day - poof - gone. The folder is entirely empty.

I assume its a problem with the updater being interrupted by the shutdown? It probably runs after closing Cursor, just like it does with VSCode - but I never experienced this issue with VSCode.

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I’m loosing my mind over this, did you find any solutions ?

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SOLUTION FOR WINDOWS: Simply install Cursor, and a shortcut will appear on the desktop. Now, click on Open File Location, and you will see a bunch of shortcuts. Among them, again, choose Cursor. Click on Open File Location, and you will see the package of Cursor. Among these, choose the Cursor application file and create its desktop shortcut. Now delete the previous shortcut. So the whole problem was the shortcut.

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Just happened to me on Linux: Restarted Cursor, and the AppImage file I originally downloaded was gone. After a while a new AppImage appeared in the same directory, with a different name. I had a symbolic link which pointed to the original AppImage:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user        28 joulu   4 11:34 cursor -> cursor-0.43.5x86_64.AppImage
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 166505133 joulu  10 10:16 cursor-0.43.6-build-241206z7j6me2e2-x86_64.AppImage

I’d hope there would be a way to turn automatic updates off. Also if automatic updates are on, there should be better indication of update being in progress.