# Cursor gets file paths wrong very often, nearly always with multiple workspaces

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-gets-file-paths-wrong-very-often-nearly-always-with-multiple-workspaces/31402>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [November 30, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-gets-file-paths-wrong-very-often-nearly-always-with-multiple-workspaces/31402 "2024-11-30T20:48:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Berstigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@Berstigma](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Berstigma)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-gets-file-paths-wrong-very-often-nearly-always-with-multiple-workspaces/31402/1 "2024-11-30T20:48:34Z")

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It always happens at some point… I’m just asking to do some changes to files, and then Cursor randomly creates new files with the same name of the files it should actually edit, and it applies the changes on those new files instead of the existing ones. This is very frustrating. I’m forced to purge everything and start a new conversation and pass just the few files I want then to reset it.

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**Author:** ![Barba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Barba](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Barba)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2024, 2:42am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-gets-file-paths-wrong-very-often-nearly-always-with-multiple-workspaces/31402/2 "2024-12-01T02:42:19Z")

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Facing the same problem here… it´s really frustrating 😪 Whem cursor will fix this ?

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**Author:** ![mileslow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/mileslow/32/11304_2.png) [@mileslow](https://forum.cursor.com/u/mileslow)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-gets-file-paths-wrong-very-often-nearly-always-with-multiple-workspaces/31402/3 "2024-12-06T17:31:18Z")

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I have the same problem as well, it happens primarily with larger react projects (for me) when the file system gets very complex.

But yes, the cursor responses always get the file paths wrong on imports

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**Author:** ![dglewis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/dglewis/32/10519_2.png) [@dglewis](https://forum.cursor.com/u/dglewis)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-gets-file-paths-wrong-very-often-nearly-always-with-multiple-workspaces/31402/4 "2024-12-06T18:09:36Z")

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Happens very often for me now since latest update to 0.43.5. Prior, never occurred or I didn’t notice. I’m certain it just doesn’t have the right context so I’ve worked around it by explicitly asking the agent to ensure it has full context and to ask me if it might be missing anything. I also test often and have moved toward test driven dev to catch these snafus in a more automated fashion… lots of integration and e2e tests.

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**Author:** ![justin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/justin/32/33741_2.png) [@justin](https://forum.cursor.com/u/justin)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-gets-file-paths-wrong-very-often-nearly-always-with-multiple-workspaces/31402/5 "2025-03-06T19:37:22Z")

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Hadn’t noticed this problem before but I upgraded to 46 and now it has no idea about repo’s other than the first in the workspace and you can’t even tag them for manual context