Cursor reset settings and chats twice in two days

[Artemonim]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Yesterday I decided not to issue a bug report, because I thought that Revo Uninstaller had accidentally erased something that belongs to Cursor. But now I just closed two windows of the program, opened a new window and I was greeted by onboarding.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Close the program
2. Open the program
3. ■■■■ the program

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 10.0.22631

Additional Information

logs.7z (335.1 KB)

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

[Artemonim]

By the way, if you try to open any reseted chat, the tab loads endlessly and cannot be closed.

[Artemonim]

@Artemonim

and cannot be closed.

These buttons didn’t help either

[Artemonim]

@Artemonim

and cannot be closed.

Closed automatically after restart

[deanrie]

Hey, thanks for the report. This matches a known bug in the Agent Window beta feature that causes settings and chat history to reset. A fix is confirmed for Cursor v1.8.

Recovery attempt: if you have backups (or Revo Uninstaller may have created restore points), close Cursor and try restoring these folders:

• %APPDATA%\Cursor\User\globalStorage\state.vscdb
• %APPDATA%\Cursor\User\workspaceStorage

Unfortunately, once this bug triggers, data can’t be recovered without backups.

Going forward:

• Use Export Chat regularly for important conversations
• Consider the SpecStory extension for automatic exports

[Artemonim]

@deanrie

This matches a known bug in the Agent Window beta feature that causes settings and chat history to reset.

I opened Agent Window once this week, but I didn’t use it today, between the first and second reset.

[Artemonim]

@deanrie

Use Export Chat regularly for important conversations

Storing program settings and chats in the Cursor cloud

Feature request for product/service Cursor IDE Describe the request I used to play the game War Thunder and they made it so that the control settings are saved to the cloud. If you need to reinstall the game, you haven’t played for a long time, or you’ve changed your computer, your settings are automatically loaded at startup. Many people have already come across how Cursor can suddenly erase it own settings and chat history. If they will be saved to the user’s account, the problem will be par…

[dvg_p4]

A fix in v1.8 does not help given that the current stable version is 1.7.54, and the bug persists despite the fact that the Agent Window is no longer marked as beta or unstable in any way.