Fix issues opening cursor

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product have recently switched from cursor on window to mac osx 12.

Its actually driving me insane. It opens things i haven’t opened and I’m stuck with 900 tabs all asking do I want to save. I switched off hot logout. But every time i open it it selects a project and opens all its file. Firstly. I must have a setting wrong so i need some guidance. There is no way this program has been designed to automatically open the last project you were working on.

This is my main issue when you open a program you should have the program and the option to open a project or file, like in every application in the last two decades, how do i set my cursor to not open what it things I want?

I want it to open each time to the splash. Nothing else, just like all other programs, how do I d o this, and is there a command line to do this, because if i try to open it to access settings it opens all the files it thinks i was using.

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This is controlled by VS Code (which Cursor is built on). Go to Cursor > Settings and search for “window restore”. Yours is likely set to all. Your options are:

  • all – restore everything

  • folders – restore folder workspaces

  • one – restore last active window

  • none – always open empty window

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No its set to none. And hot is off.

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On your Mac, open System Settings → Desktop & Dock →
Look under Windows - is “Close windows when quitting an application” disabled?

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Its enabled. Promising to not reopen things. I actually uninstalled and resinstalled cursor. I flushed all the cache directories i could find.

ran this

1. Kill Cursor and its background ‘zombie’ processes killall Cursor 2>/dev/null #

  1. Wipe the hidden AI “Review” state that forces the save prompt rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor/User/globalStorage/cursor-composer/* rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage/*/cursor-composer/* #

  2. Wipe the “Unsaved” backup folder and LOCK IT so it can’t save junk again rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor/Backups mkdir -p ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor/Backups chmod 000 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor/Backups #

  3. Wipe the macOS ‘Snapshot’ that keeps bringing back old windows rm -rf ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.todesktop.230313mzl4w4u92.savedState

set this in my JSON

{ “workbench.editor.showTabs”: “single”, “workbench.editor.limit.enabled”: true, “workbench.editor.limit.value”: 1, “workbench.editor.closeDirtyTabs”: true, “files.hotExit”: “off”, “window.restoreWindows”: “none”, “window.confirmBeforeClose”: “never”, “editor.scrollbar.vertical”: “visible”, “editor.scrollbar.verticalScrollbarSize”: 48 }

Opened my project folder 400 tabs opened i have need sitting here closing them for about 9 hours now. I selected close all and its asking me if I want to save each and every never accessed file.

Mac OS 12.

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Is tehre a reason there is no way to see how many tabs are still open or why cursors only open tab restriction appears to be, how much ram do you have. This is obviously a glitch but i cant escape it, and if the app had a ceiling for open instances at least then i would know if i was near.

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hi @migraine234565767 VSCode on which Cursor is built uses for each file opened a language server to provide functionality. Opening many tabs increases CPU and RAM consumption.

You could start with a fresh config folder without previous settings which should then not re-open all the tabs.

For this close Cursor and copy/backup the folder ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor . Then remove original folder and start Cursor again. As this removes user settings and any stuck data it will ask you to login and then you can open Cursor without all old tabs.

Which Cursor version are you using?