Thanks for the feedback on storing code changes! Great suggestion - I’ll pass it to the team.
For recovering the full chat from your backup, there’s a detailed guide in this topic: Chat stuck on “Loading Chat” — cannot access previous conversation - #16 by Danivisit
That post shows step-by-step how to extract chat data from the workspaceStorage folder. Since you already have a 1724 KB backup, you can likely restore the full conversation by following those steps.
To avoid this in the future, I recommend installing the SpecStory extension from the Cursor marketplace - it automatically backs up chats to the cloud.