I downloaded Cursor and immediately started to prompt the agent chat.
I wrote an elaborate prompt taking nearly 20 minutes and stupidly didn’t save it anywhere. (I saved to clipboard at some point but that got deleted).
The chat generated the directory map, code etc.
It asked if I wanted a zip file. I said yes. Then it said it can’t give me a zip file (don’t know what happened there).
I realized I hadn’t opened the project to a local directory. Once I did, the chat cleared!!!
Checked log files in the Application Support directory (Mac). Didnt find anything resembling my chat.
Checked my profile page on Cursor web, no chat history.
I don’t mind not accessing the files. If I can recover that initial prompt, that would be great.
For now there is no extension or builtin feature as far as I know which exports chats from other directories which you closed, you could though check the chat database (sqlite) in the application support directory if there are such entries. Just make sure to not open the db while cursor is open, you can back it up.
Opening Cursor in a different directory cant show the another directory’s chat, since its dependent on the active ‘project directory’. Though if you remember where it was open at begin it could be retrieved in Cursor if you open it that way again. (close all other instances)
Specstory has built an extension that actually does export the chat history while you are using Cursor, in the current project directory. That would help prevent the loss of next chats.
@mkorn1 If you install SpecStory and turn on Developer tools you can search all of your composerData across all workspaces in the Settings Panel. If you remember some key words or the name of your chat you might be able to find it!
