Cursor is Crashing Now Immediately after Starting

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Describe the Bug

Help, since a few hours when I start Cursor on my Macbook M1, it will crash right away and show me the wheel and there is nothing I can do anymore, just force quit. How Can I solve this?

Steps to Reproduce

Just open up Cursor and then it crashes and shows the loading wheel forever and you can only force quit.

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

MacOS Sequoia

For AI issues: which model did you use?

5.2 GPT

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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I’m on MacOS Tahoe and I am having the same exact issue.

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Same here (windows)

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Hey, thanks for the report. Here are a few things you can try:

  1. Start with extensions disabled:
cursor --disable-extensions
  1. If that didn’t help, reset the workspace state:
    Fully close Cursor (force quit), then run in Terminal (make a backup first):
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage

This will delete chat history, but it often fixes freezing on launch.

  1. If it still doesn’t work, do a clean reinstall:
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Cursor

Then download the latest version from Cursor · Download

Let me know which step helped (or didn’t), and which Cursor version you had installed. If the issue started after an update, that’s useful to know too.

@David_Ben_harush For Windows, the steps are similar, just with different paths:

  • %APPDATA%\Cursor\User\workspaceStorage for the workspace
  • %APPDATA%\Cursor and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Cursor for a clean reinstall
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@deanrie Restarting with extensions disabled did not work. Deleting the workspace storage did, but yea, as you mentioned I lost my chat history. Is there any way to retrieve said history or is it only stored locally?

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Chat history is stored only locally in that workspaceStorage folder. After it’s deleted, Cursor can’t restore it.

The only option is if you have Time Machine or another backup tool enabled. You can try restoring ~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage from a snapshot made before the deletion.

Glad the startup crash is fixed. Let me know if you need anything else.

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