# Lost all historical chats

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/lost-all-historical-chats/149994>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Tags:** crashes, chat\
**Created:** [January 26, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/lost-all-historical-chats/149994 "2026-01-26T19:56:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Sage0614](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/sage0614/32/16894_2.png) [@Sage0614](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Sage0614)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/lost-all-historical-chats/149994/1 "2026-01-26T19:56:55Z")

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### Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

### Describe the Bug

experiencing frequent ‘agent stream can’t started, please reload window’ in recent days, after a cusor reboot today, all historical chats become unavailable(title still shows in agents panel but when click shows nothing), also I lost all user settings, which happens many times in the past, but lost historical chat is very very anoying, that’s context that I spend long time to build

### Steps to Reproduce

as described in the bug

### Expected Behavior

I want cursor have some reliable way to persist the chat history, like a local database or sth, do not let chat history lose randomly due to cursor crash, update etc, chat history is important asset.

### Operating System

Windows 10/11

### Version Information

Version: 2.4.21

### Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

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**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/lost-all-historical-chats/149994/3 "2026-01-27T12:34:58Z")

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Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known issue. The chats are still in the DB, but they don’t open because of DB issues. Your data is most likely not lost, the DB just can’t read it.

Try this:

Step 1: Check for corrupted files

- Fully close Cursor (check Task Manager)
- Open `%APPDATA%\Cursor\User\globalStorage`
- Look for a file like `state.vscdb.corrupted.1767...` (the numbers will be different)
- If you find one, rename the old `state.vscdb` as a backup, then rename the corrupted file to `state.vscdb`

Detailed tutorial: [Tutorial: How to Fix "Loading Chat" and Recover History (Cursor v2.3.x)](https://forum.cursor.com/t/tutorial-how-to-fix-loading-chat-and-recover-history-cursor-v2-3-x/148023)

Step 2: If there are no corrupted files  
Can you share a screenshot of what’s inside `globalStorage` and `workspaceStorage\[your-project]\`? Sometimes the data is there. In a similar case, recovery via DM helped: [Can't load or click on chats](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cant-load-or-click-on-chats/148947)

About the “agent stream can’t started” error  
This is usually related to Extension Host or network issues. If it happens often:

- Try disabling extensions temporarily
- Check if you have a proxy or firewall that might be blocking it

Important: This often happens when there’s not enough free disk space during an update, so the DB migration can’t finish properly. Please make sure you have enough free space before the next updates.

The team is aware of this issue and is working on a more reliable fix for chat persistence. Let me know if these steps don’t help and we can dig deeper.

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**Author:** ![Sage0614](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/sage0614/32/16894_2.png) [@Sage0614](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Sage0614)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/lost-all-historical-chats/149994/4 "2026-01-27T18:13:57Z")

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do you have usual suspicion of what extension cause it? I am remoting in a cloud server through remote-SSH so I cannot disable all extensions like remote-SSH

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/lost-all-historical-chats/149994/6 "2026-02-18T18:14:13Z")

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Closed on February 18, 2026, 6:14pm UTC

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