Is it feasible without losing previous chat history?
i have done it … but can’t remember the exact steps but if you are on Windows keep making backup copies of .cursor and \username\AppData\Roaming\Cursor - you wont regret it
@Paul_Wareham It may require that you update the path hash in the database as the path is hashed there to connect with the chat messages.
As @FinDevAI mentioned, backup the important folders (cursor and code) just in case.
Sounds like there could be a feature request in this, a little UI to attach a project for history etc. to a folder. esp if there is a way to back up that history.
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yeah seems like it is a new feature
I remember how i did this now - copy the project folder and paste it to a new location … in my case i was moving everything cursor related off the operating system drive.
Paste the folder in the new location. Rename the folder to the new name. Leave the original folder as is. Open a new window in cursor, choose to open your renamed folder in its new location. Cursor recognizes its the same project and all your configumutations, rules etc are retained in the new project.
Leave the old project as is for a while, eventually when you are confident the new project folder is reliably recognized, you can rename and archive the previous folder and it will eventually disappear from cursor, without you losing any part of the project.
I higly reccommend backing up those files mentioned in my first post and also putting cursor on a drive to itself, in case your o/s gets into problems you will always be able to pull the cursor drive out of the picture and deal with o/s restore without losing Cursor workspace and settings.
ideally \AppData\Romaing\Cursor should be a symbolic link to the Cursor drive and the cursor drive is backing up to ProtonDrive continously providing you with additional version history for everything. I stopped using github and ProtonDrive is a more secure solution as far as Intelectual Property concerns go.
If anything is back doored its going to be software developer tools so you gotta watch that. I have a report to make about Notepad++ as a Chinese APT vector one day. Very, very complex and persistent situation with that universally ‘approved’ piece of garbage software that seemed quite handy at first.