Lost Chat After Update

[Zach.Stefan]

Describe the Bug

I had a Chat Agent that I have been working with for over 2 weeks (everything was great) completed phase 1 of 3 phase project, Cursor kept asking to update, until there was not option but to update, after the update the That specific Agent/Chat is no where to be found This is extremely disappointing, Lost all conversation and planning for things I CAN’T even remember, There has to be a way to have a list of all Chat Agents History and restore a session if needed, this is very discouraging and disappointing to continue using your service.

Steps to Reproduce

Not sure I just did an update

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.3.34
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 643ba67cd252e2888e296dd0cf34a0c5d7625b90
Date: 2026-01-10T21:17:10.428Z (9 hrs ago)
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 21.6.0

Additional Information

Honestly I can not continue with this project after 44% of usage ALL GONE

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

[deanrie]

Hey, I’m really sorry to hear you lost your chat history. I totally get how frustrating that is after 2 weeks of work.

There’s still a chance you can recover it. The data might still be in local storage:

• Find this folder: ~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage/
• Each subfolder is a separate project. Open state.vscdb using DB Browser for SQLite
• Search for keys like workbench.panel.aichat.view... or workbench.panel.composerChatViewPanel...
• Also check ~/.cursor/projects/<project_name>/agent-transcripts. You might find .txt files with the history there

Full guide here: How to extract full chat history from workstorage - #2 by deanrie

For the future, I’d recommend installing the SpecStory extension for automatic chat backups.

Let me know if you manage to recover anything.