Cursor prompted to login and lose settings

[beru]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Yesterday and today, Cursor prompted me to log in, all my settings, theme, models are gone, and recent projects are also gone from “Open Recent”, not sure what else I’ll find out later

Steps to Reproduce

not sure , i just opened cursor

Expected Behavior

to not prompt me login and lose my settings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.7.44 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 9d178a4■■■89981b62546448bb32920a8219a5d0
Date: 2025-10-10T15:43:37.500Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
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

[beru]

allow list is gone too

[deanrie]

Hey, thanks for the report. This looks unusual, especially since it happened two days in a row.

Please check if your Cursor user data directories are intact:

1. Open File Explorer and go to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Cursor
2. Make sure the folder exists and contains files
3. Also check %USERPROFILE%\.cursor\

A few questions to help diagnose:

• After logging back in, if you reconfigure settings (theme, models, etc.), do they persist after restarting Cursor?
• Did you have any Windows updates, antivirus scans, or permission changes?
• Do you have enough free disk space?
• Do you see any errors in the DevTools console? (Help → Toggle Developer Tools)

This could be a file permissions issue or something interfering with Cursor’s storage directories.

[beru]

yes, 2 days in a row.

the 2 folders you mentioned do have files.

1-i just restarted it and the settings persisted.
2-no windows update, i didn’t perform a scan recently
3-i do have 20gb free
4-dev tools errors:

[deanrie]

Thanks for the additional info.

Please try the following:

1. Fully close Cursor
2. In File Explorer, go to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Cursor and rename it to Cursor.old (backup)
3. Restart Cursor (it will create a fresh folder)
4. Log back in and reconfigure settings

This should give you a clean slate. If the issue happens again tomorrow at the same time, it might indicate that the settings state isn’t being saved, possibly due to disk cleanup or software that deletes cached data.