since when you load cursor it loads into agent and not ide with current project, it starts as new project, you click editor window and you can open your workspace but it wont load your chat history, shows archive drop down but wont open anything, ask an agent and it says the .bak etc is their and we have tried to load using commands but nothing worked
Steps to Reproduce
open cursor from desktop icon, click editor and load workspace, try to open chat history
Expected Behavior
cursor should load ide with current workspace, chat history with agent window loaded
Hey, thanks for the report. There are two separate known issues here:
Cursor opens the Agents Window instead of the IDE with your project
This is a known bug related to forcing a new layout. Workaround:
Use Ctrl+Shift+N or open the Command Palette with Ctrl+Shift+P, then run Open Editor Window
It’s already being tracked, but there’s no ETA for a fix yet.
The Archived dropdown won’t expand, or your old chat history is missing
First, check the sidebar settings in the Agents Window:
Click Customize Sidebar at the bottom of the panel and make sure Archived is enabled.
If the transcripts are on disk at ~/.cursor/projects/<workspace>/agent-transcripts/ but still don’t show up after updating, that’s another known bug where the session index doesn’t restore after an upgrade. It’s also on the radar, with no ETA.
Let me know if the Customize Sidebar step helped. If not, you’re likely hitting the second case.
Hi and sorry for the late reply, I can seem to find the sidebar settings, ive looked through all settings on the agents window etc and cant seem to find “Archived is enabled”
Hey Rob, my bad. I didn’t see your screenshot, it probably didn’t load for me last time. I can see it now.
This usually means one of two things:
The wrong workspace is open. Chat history is stored separately for each workspace. If Cursor opened a different folder after the update, Archived will be empty even if the old transcripts are still on disk. Check that the workspace path shown at the top of Cursor matches the project where you had those chats before.
The transcripts are on disk, but the sidebar isn’t picking them up. Take a look in ~/.cursor/projects/. Each subfolder is a separate workspace. In the one that matches your project, there should be an agent-transcripts/ folder. If the files are there but Archived is still empty, that’s a known issue: the session index doesn’t rebuild after an update. There’s no ETA for a fix yet.
Can you check ~/.cursor/projects/ and tell me if you see your workspace folder there with transcripts inside?
1: I’ve opened the workspace direct from the directory of project, even opened from my nas backup and still is archived with facing down arrow if I click it but nothing opens
2: yes the projects are their with transcripts folder etc but just wont open
It used to work great when the IDE just opened with current project and now its a hassle to use
Hey Rob, thanks for checking. The transcripts being on disk but not showing up under Archived is exactly the session index bug I mentioned. After the update, the sidebar doesn’t rebuild the session index, so older chats don’t get pulled in even if the files are still there.
This is a known issue and we’re tracking it internally. I can’t share an ETA for a fix yet, but we’ll post an update here as soon as we have one.
If you urgently need something from those chats right now, the .jsonl files in agent-transcripts/ are readable. You can open them in an editor and manually copy out what you need. Not ideal, but it works as a temporary workaround.
