Cursor memories aren't persisting

Bug Reports
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Describe the Bug

When cursor restarts (after a normal shutdown,) in the same project & workspace, my saved memories are gone.

Steps to Reproduce

Create memories, explicitly with the agent. Memories are saved and can be viewed at settings->rules & memories->saved memories. Exit cursor. Restart cursor and I get “no memories yet”

Expected Behavior

Memories are meant to persist when the application exits normally and is restarted.

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.2.4 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: a8e95743c5268be73767c46944a71f4465d05c90
Date: 2025-07-10T17:09:01.383Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

1 Like
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Hi @matthew-a-gordon do the memories come back after a while? it could be a loading issue at begin.

Please also check Settings > Network > Run Diagnostics

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No - on Windows 11 memories do not return. Network diagnostics all pass. Curiously, I had an edit session yesterday using Cursor on my linux laptop and it had what appeared to be all of my accumulated memories across both Cursor environments.

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Yes they are synched usually automatically.

Could you check if your Win version has Privacy disabled? or what the current setting is, that might affect sync.