Cursor Editor Fails to Open

[ratankaliani]

Overview

Cursor becomes unresponsive when loading specific code repositories. Specifically, it appears to get stuck in Fetching: Querying project metadata while loading the chat. MacOS then triggers a pop-up window that the window is unresponsive after ~10s.

This stops me from using Cursor on specific code repositories.

On repositories where it does not attempt to load the chat, I am able to open Cursor.

Is there a configuration to not load the chat for a repository by default?

Notes

• I deleted & re-installed Cursor and the issue persists.
• There’s no .cursor or .vscode config.

Details

Operating System: MacOS Sequoia (15.3.2)
Cursor Version:

Version: 0.47.8 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 82ef0f61c01d079d1b7e5ab04d88499d5af500e0
Date: 2025-03-18T05:28:47.245Z (1 wk ago)
Electron: 32.2.6
Chromium: 128.0.6613.186
Node.js: 20.18.1
V8: 12.8.374.38-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.3.0

[ratankaliani]

Re-cloning the repository (which was a few months old) and opening the new repo from the new clone fixed the issue.

I have not opened the repository in a few months, is it possible that the chat that was linked is no longer accessible which causes an issue when fetching the chat on startup?

[deanrie]

Hey, I think the problem was with the chat history. Since you cloned the repository again, starting everything anew, I believe that resolved the issue. If you encounter a similar error in the future, try clearing the chat history.