Cursor unable to index

As stated in the title, setting up indexing takes forever, and fails everytime

I am also having the same issue, cursor unable to index the codebase.

Hi @MrOliverYt

Does your codebase consist of thousands of files? Have you restricted access to directories like node_modules and other package files? If you’re not sure how to do that, you can find an explanation here:

hi, thanks for the response. Indexing seems to work for me again, weird. I’ll let you know if this happens again, but thanks anyways

I’m having the same issue.
I have been using cursor for a week and only since yesterday I started to have regular failure of indexing (“handshake failed”).

Since I haven’t change anything in my settings and my codebase hasn’t significantly grown from 2 days ago when everything was working fine, I have a hard time understanding what’s going on.

I have seen posts in this forum sometimes from a year ago with the exact same problem we are having so it looks like it’s a recurring issue with Cursor.
It’s still usable even without codebase indexing but it make Cursor a much less interesting tool for helping building software.

I know Cursor’s founders are young, but they might want to make sure their current features are robust before working on exciting new stuff.

PS: the other posts with this issue I found.

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i am having similar issues (happening since today) i really think its a server side issue on cursor side. wish there was a status page. lots of recent indexing issues too on github:

/getcursor/cursor/issues/1809
/getcursor/cursor/issues/1998
/getcursor/cursor/issues/2035

sorry for an extra post but i cant edit hidden one (ps hiding posts with links is annoying, hope someone approves me already)

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ok unfortunately indexing is broken again on my cursor settings

Same problem all day today

I get a handshake failure when trying to index every time since this morning

I have same issue
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I had same issue on two different machines and two different networks. Then I read somewhere in this forum - can’t find where now - try having a few files open when indexing. Worked on both machines.

Hi getting the same issue, stuck at setting up indexing, then shows handshake failed