Lost Progress after Restart

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Hello, looking for some support. I am a novice user with 0 coding experience but I have been using the ai within cursor to build a pretty cool user interface for my business that links to a google database.

I was under the impression the code saves automatically as I have shut down my laptop on many occasions and when I would relaunch cursor my work would still be there.

Earlier today cursor froze and was unable to finish any prompts that I was asking of it. So i restarted the laptop and relaunched my user interface to find it is displaying a super old version and I cannot seem to retrieve all of the work I have lost.

I restarted the laptop again and this time the user interface loads an even older version undoing even more work.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

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Hey, thanks for the report. I know this is critical. Losing work is a serious issue.

Try restoring via Timeline:

  1. Open the file
  2. Right-click the file in Explorer
  3. Select “Open Timeline”
  4. You should see autosaved versions there. Pick the version you need

This helped another user recover changes: Lost Recent Chat and Unstaged Changes – Any Way to Recover? - #2 by danigal

To prevent further data loss:

  • If you’re not using Git yet, please initialize a repo and commit often
  • Try resetting Cursor’s Application Support folder (this creates a backup):
cd ~/Library/"Application Support"
mv Cursor CursorBackup

For debugging, please share:

  • Your Cursor version (Help > About > Copy)
  • Are you using Agent? If yes, the Request ID (Chat menu > Copy Request ID)
  • Does it still happen with cursor --disable-extensions? (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P > Shell Command: Install ‘cursor’ command, then run cursor --disable-extensions in Terminal)

Let me know if Timeline helped recover the files.