Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug I cannot seem to get back to my work (~/,config/Cursor) and to make it worse, I can barely see the screen as the GUI mode seems to be ‘black cat on a black blanket on a moonless night’. I am updating via debian dselect / apt-…

[20260109-CursorAI-BlackScreen_113257-crop] Just as a refresher, this is what my screen looks like. Although this problem is secondary to recovering my chat database, it would be worth showing around. How can anyone believe this is a usable interface???

Hey, thanks for the report. To recover your chat history, check a different location: ls -la ~/.config/Cursor/User/globalStorage/ Look for files with .corrupted. in the name. They contain your backup data. If you find any: Fully close Cursor In ~/.config/Cursor/User/globalStorage/: Move state.…

ls -la ~/.config/Cursor/User/globalStorage/ total 536 drwxrwxr-x 2 amon amon 4096 Jan 9 14:43 . drwxrwxr-x 6 amon amon 4096 Dec 3 15:23 .. -rw-r–r-- 1 amon amon 528384 Jan 9 14:43 state.vscdb -rw-rw-r-- 1 amon amon 20 Jan 9 10:47 state.vscdb.options.json -rw-rw-r-- 1 amon amon …

Thanks for the detailed info. Black screen issue: Based on the command output, Cursor is using the old Intel HD Graphics 3000 with Mesa drivers. The newer Electron version (37.7.0) might have compatibility issues with this older GPU. Can you confirm, when you ran ELECTRON_DISABLE_GPU=1 cursor, di…

I will send a photo later, but interesting results. I pulled backups of the entire ,config/Cursor directory that were likely only a day or two before the cursor update when things went bad. Cursor loads with the backup. It has my old readable setup which has a white background and dark text. It sho…

Good, progress - the backup helped restore the normal UI and chats are visible now. So the black screen was due to corrupted settings, not the GPU. Now about the hang when loading the chat for 12+ hours - that’s a known issue with very large histories. A few options: Try opening another chat Cl…

Dean: I’ve been swamped with the New Year, but I did get around to the test. An agent with a blank mind works. Now I have to deal with recovering 6 months of training.

The CursorMove looks like it is not a solution. He’s done an overstrike on his previous message: “Supposedly, Doctor and Merge mode can fix chats that disappeared after an update, but I’m not sure and haven’t tested it. can’t”

Yes, unfortunately Cursor Mover really doesn’t work to restore chats after an update. The author recently confirmed this. But there’s an alternative, manual extraction via SQLite. This lets you pull the data from the database even if the UI freezes: Install DB Browser for SQLite: https://sqlitebr…

Cursor is not loading chats and screen might as well be pure black: Reprise

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Artemonim (Artemonim) January 10, 2026, 12:10am 6

To be honest, I’m not sure I understand what exactly your problem is, but you may try Doctor in Cursor Mover: Copy the workspace without losing the chats

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