[HELP] - After installing Nodejs on Windows, my Cursor lost all my config and Chat history. Previously, I was using WSL

[kinder_grinder (Stefan Smiljkovic)]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

I was always running Cursor on Windows 10 using WSL. When I decided to install Nodejs on Windows directly, after restarting Cursor, it lost all my config settings and chat history from the previous 4 months.

Seems that some Nodejs installation paths got picked up and screwed it.

Anyone faced this before?

Steps to Reproduce

Install Nodejs on Windows

Expected Behavior

To keep my Workspace settings same as before.

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.7.17
VSCode version: 1.99.3

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

[ravirahman]

The chat history is stored by the workspace. A WSL workspace is treated differently as a windows workspace. Your chat history should still be available if you open up the workspace again in WSL.

[kinder_grinder (Stefan Smiljkovic)]

@ravirahman

indows workspace. Your chat history should still be available if you open up the workspace again in WSL.

Thanks for the fast response. I am strugling over here honestly. Cursor is crashing after running each command.

How I can open Workspace again in WSL?

Should it be here, because I dont see it.

Also, when I started Cursor after the Windows Nodejs installation, it asked me to go trough the setup process like I was doing it fresh new Cursor Installation.

Did I maybe lose my old workspace in that setup process?

[ravirahman]

System nodejs should not conflict with cursor

To reopen your workspace in wsl, you should be able to access it under the “Open Recent” menu:

If that doesn’t work, can you try opening it under the WSL explorer view?

[kinder_grinder (Stefan Smiljkovic)]

Appreciate ur trying, but its not that simple.

I tried many things, with a help of Cursor. The worst thing now is that its completly crashing all the time when its running terminal commands.

Also, I tried to open another project and it shows this “[composer] No composer data handle found“

Any idea?