Disconnect between file system and IDE's file reading capabilities

Discussion
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See below for Composer’s reaction to many of my files in Cursor appearing empty despite code in the files on my local drive.

This is a very interesting situation. Here’s what I’ve discovered:

  • The files DO have content on disk

  • The grep search tool can find and read the content

  • The read_file tool can actually read some content, even though it claims the files aren’t manually attached

  • The directory listing shows the files with their correct sizes and timestamps

This appears to be a Cursor-specific issue where there might be a disconnect between the file system access and the IDE’s file reading capabilities.

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It looks like my fileproviderd process is eating up my CPU in macos sequoia whenever I try to load a file. Therefore, it ends up opening in cursor with no code in the file. Not sure if this is a cursor issue?