Lost Progress after Restart

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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.