Hi team, I accidentally deleted the entire project folder while Cursor was still open. Interestingly, all files disappeared except for the chat, which remained visible. I used the chat’s checkpoint feature to recover the code, and most file timelines were successfully restored. However, after clos…

Hey, this might have happened because the project name changed, or you moved it to a different location on your disk, all of which breaks the connection with the chat history. You can also try to restore the chat history using this extension: [image] SpecStory - Visual Studio Marketplace …

Looks like this is my only option now. The version I backed up with Git is from a month ago, so thankfully the checkpoint feature helped me recover most of the lost work. I’m just curious—when the entire project folder was deleted, the chat was still functioning normally. I could view old conversati…

Good morning! I’m down the rabbit hole trying to restore my chat history for ~5 months of work in Cursor across different projects after it randomly decided to stop loading for me following an auto-log out after restart this morning (:melting_face:): Can't load past chat after updating to a newer ve…

Why would you setup Git if it’s only to use it once a month? That completely defeats the purpose

DITTO To be clear (since DITTO caused an error) I am in almost the identical position right this second.

I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one facing a problem with my chat history. I changed my the name of my route folder, losy all the chat. Changed the the name back, the chats reappeared but can’t access them smh

I am in a similar situation. I updated to the latest version of Cursor and all my chat history is completely 100 % gone. Did anyone solve this issue - please comment here.

I recommend using SpecStory extension, it automatically exports each chat as MD file. This works great. Now in Cursor 0.50 you can also manually export a chat you want to keep as MD file. For old chats, depending what caused the chats to be deleted, it may not be recoverable. Perhaps if you have …

SOLUTION: Cursor used 2 scripts to help search through the vscdb files and read them. I would tell Cursor what im looking for. key words, times, dates, and Cursor found everything one by one and compiled all the lost code and chat to a .md file. In conclusion ask Cursor to find it for you. I helped…

I used your prompt with the Ubuntu location for workspaceStorage and have been working for 4 hours with Cursor to get the scripts right. It is now outputing md files but the only content is my inputs. It can’t seem to find any content from the AI responses in history, instead showing ‘—’ where there…

How to Recover Chat History from Cursor Files?

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Or you can avoid wasting your quota and try Doctor in Cursor Mover: Copy the workspace without losing the chats

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