Cursor is not loading on both of my Mac's - keeps infinitely loading

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@Dave_Howson, ok, the symptoms changed. If an empty window opens but a specific workspace freezes the IDE, then it’s not the global state.vscdb. It’s workspace specific storage. Each workspace stores its state in ~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage/<hash>/, and it can grow on its own. This is a known pattern with bloat in workbench.find.history and cursorDiskKV.

Try this step by step, don’t wipe everything:

  1. Run this to find large workspace folders:
du -sh ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage/* | sort -h | tail -20

If something is in the hundreds of MB or in GB, that’s a good candidate.

  1. Match the hash to your workspace using the workspace.json file inside that folder:
cat ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage/<hash>/workspace.json
  1. Once you find the right workspace, rename the folder, don’t delete it:
mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage/<hash> ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage/<hash>.bak

Open the workspace again. Cursor will create a fresh folder.

  1. If the workspace freezes again after some time, grab two main.log files during the freeze, one from just before and one from just after, from the newest folder in ~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/logs/. Those logs usually show what the startup is getting stuck on.

No ETA on a real fix for the bloat yet, but locally this keeps the workspace usable without doing a full wipe.