# Files suddenly erased using 0.50.0 on Ubuntu **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [May 28, 2025, 3:51am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/files-suddenly-erased-using-0-50-0-on-ubuntu/97639 "2025-05-28T03:51:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidktx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/davidktx/32/52822_2.png) [@davidktx](https://forum.cursor.com/u/davidktx)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 3:51am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/files-suddenly-erased-using-0-50-0-on-ubuntu/97639/1 "2025-05-28T03:51:33Z")
I was working with Grok-3-beta and all of a sudden all the files disappeared from the workspace. .git files also I saw another post like this a few hours ago and thought nothing of it. I could not find it, but will continue searching. I am concerned this is going to happen again and now will check-in to GitHub after each working change. Lost everything from my last check-in to GitHub. Linux Godzilla 6.11.0-26-generic #26~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT\_DYNAMIC Thu Apr 17 19:20:47 UTC 2 x86\_64 x86\_64 x86\_64 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 24.04 Cursor-0.50.5-x86\_64.AppImage ![Screenshot from 2025-05-27 22-38-51](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/1/7/176dc7e424297cc77b2a0514a83c0200484e0a7b.png) ![Screenshot from 2025-05-27 22-37-19](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/2/6/263d6e8157805072e9b6bc71735575fe640f6cf7.png) ![Screenshot from 2025-05-27 22-36-26](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/d/5/d564f5124f86705f0de6d0b0a279ffd4219ec68b.png) ---
**Author:** ![condor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/condor/32/73148_2.png) [@condor](https://forum.cursor.com/u/condor)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 4:33am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/files-suddenly-erased-using-0-50-0-on-ubuntu/97639/2 "2025-05-28T04:33:52Z")
Hi, the other post where you commented is now linked to this post for reference. I see from your screenshots that a shell script was run. Can it be that the AI edited that shell script? (example, if it tried to delete a file and couldnt, it may have used creative methods to do that regardless, some people reported such a case). ---
**Author:** ![davidktx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/davidktx/32/52822_2.png) [@davidktx](https://forum.cursor.com/u/davidktx)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/files-suddenly-erased-using-0-50-0-on-ubuntu/97639/3 "2025-05-28T16:32:53Z")
I’d love to look back at the chat, but that has disappeared too. I don’t see a log file and there was no way to export the chat when it happened; except by doing each prompt and response individually. Security and privacy can go too far. ---
**Author:** ![condor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/condor/32/73148_2.png) [@condor](https://forum.cursor.com/u/condor)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 6:06am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/files-suddenly-erased-using-0-50-0-on-ubuntu/97639/4 "2025-05-29T06:06:33Z")
Yes, thats bad. I use the SpecStory extension to automatically export all chats. However in case the whole project gets deleted that would too be affected. ---
**Author:** ![genesiscz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/genesiscz/32/42953_2.png) [@genesiscz](https://forum.cursor.com/u/genesiscz)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/files-suddenly-erased-using-0-50-0-on-ubuntu/97639/5 "2025-05-29T14:06:50Z")
I guess there’s a history of the chats somewhere outside of the project directory in cursor you can access ---
**Author:** ![condor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/condor/32/73148_2.png) [@condor](https://forum.cursor.com/u/condor)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/files-suddenly-erased-using-0-50-0-on-ubuntu/97639/6 "2025-05-29T14:08:19Z")
This is not about the chat but about all project files. ---
**Author:** ![davidktx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/davidktx/32/52822_2.png) [@davidktx](https://forum.cursor.com/u/davidktx)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/files-suddenly-erased-using-0-50-0-on-ubuntu/97639/7 "2025-05-29T15:29:55Z")
I would like to have the chats and a program log from /var/logs/ that would help diagnose the problem. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/files-suddenly-erased-using-0-50-0-on-ubuntu/97639/8 "2025-06-28T15:30:32Z")
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