IDE freeze when open remote folder

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

the IDE seems work well when connecting to a remote server, but freeze when opening a remote folder, and nothing could do but to close the window.

Steps to Reproduce

the same as described above

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 2.4.22
Commit: 618c607a249dd7fd2ffc662c6531143833bebd40
Date: 2026-01-26T22:51:47.692Z
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Cursor/2.4.22 Chrome/142.0.7444.235 Electron/39.2.7 Safari/537.36

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Hey @Fangbin_Xu!

Sorry for coming back to this late.

Can you confirm if the issue is still reproducible on the latest version of 2.4 and the SSH extension? We’ve made some updates here.

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Hi, thanks for your reply. I’ve updated to v2.5, and so far hasn’t met this issue again.