# Cursor randomly deleting itself **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [January 30, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-randomly-deleting-itself/46162 "2025-01-30T06:36:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![omer-os](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/omer-os/32/23165_2.png) [@omer-os](https://forum.cursor.com/u/omer-os)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-randomly-deleting-itself/46162/1 "2025-01-30T06:36:29Z")
this is happening to me randomly, just happened now i tried to open a folder with cursor, it didn’t open the app i waited for some time and tried doing it again, second time it deleted itself and i think some kind of refresh happened on my desktop screen and the cursor icon deleted. sometimes it happens when i first turn on the machine without even interacting with it, it just deletes itself and i have to redownload everytime im on windows 11 machine ---
**Author:** ![Kato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kato](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Kato)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 8:04am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-randomly-deleting-itself/46162/2 "2025-01-31T08:04:21Z")
Same here started happening since last week (jan 2025). Using Windows 11 10.0.26100 Have to reinstall Cursor and it works, but pretty annoying. ---
**Author:** ![danperks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/danperks/32/19087_2.png) [@danperks](https://forum.cursor.com/u/danperks)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-randomly-deleting-itself/46162/3 "2025-02-03T02:46:02Z")
Hey, if you reinstall the latest version from [cursor.com](http://cursor.com), does this still happen? ---
**Author:** ![ValentinWebDev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/76d3ee/32.png) [@ValentinWebDev](https://forum.cursor.com/u/ValentinWebDev)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-randomly-deleting-itself/46162/4 "2025-02-03T10:41:57Z")
I have the same issue. Yesterday I have re-installed the Cursor Setup 0.45.8 - Build 250201b44xw1x2k-x64 and today it has delete itself ---
**Author:** ![alilirashad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@alilirashad](https://forum.cursor.com/u/alilirashad)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-randomly-deleting-itself/46162/5 "2025-02-03T14:44:50Z")
The same here, on Windows 11. Since January, 2025. I have already re-installed 3 times in the past month, it deleted itself 3 times. Before January it was all good, had been using Cursor for 4-5 months w/o an issue, but since Jan, 2025 it is… ---
**Author:** ![ValentinWebDev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/76d3ee/32.png) [@ValentinWebDev](https://forum.cursor.com/u/ValentinWebDev)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-randomly-deleting-itself/46162/6 "2025-02-04T09:56:32Z")
@danperks Yesterday I noticed that Cursor was trying to update after it was closed and has since been deleted. ---
**Author:** ![danperks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/danperks/32/19087_2.png) [@danperks](https://forum.cursor.com/u/danperks)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 6:18am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-randomly-deleting-itself/46162/7 "2025-02-05T06:18:53Z")
We’ve made some progress today on figuring this out, sorry for the issues in the meantime! ---
**Author:** ![irumi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/irumi/32/28017_2.png) [@irumi](https://forum.cursor.com/u/irumi)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 5:12am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-randomly-deleting-itself/46162/8 "2025-02-21T05:12:31Z")
this just happened to me ---
**Author:** ![danperks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/danperks/32/19087_2.png) [@danperks](https://forum.cursor.com/u/danperks)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-randomly-deleting-itself/46162/9 "2025-02-26T23:14:52Z")
Hey, our latest version should fix this for the most part, but I’d confirm you don’t have any overly aggressive antivirus programs that may be removing Cursor for you!