[MacOS] After updating new Cursor AI version, I lost all the previous chats

[Yilguk_Seo]

Describe the Bug

I was using something quite old version of cursor AI starting with 0. As GPT-5 is updated, I installed the latest version (Version: 1.4.3 (Universal)). And then, I can’t load any previous chats from different project directories. Where is the directory that stores the chat db? I just overwrite the previous version by deleting all the chat histories?

Steps to Reproduce

install different cursor in macOS

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.4.3 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: e50823e9ded15fddfd743c7122b4724130c25df0
Date: 2025-08-08T17:34:53.060Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

[deanrie]

Hey, thanks for the report. It seems the issue might have occurred because Cursor completely changed the system for storing chat history, which could have caused it to disappear. You can try using this extension to restore your chat history.

SpecStory - Visual Studio Marketplace

However, this may not work if the project database has been corrupted.

Also, make sure you haven’t moved or renamed your project. If you have, try reverting it to the previous name/location.

All your chats are also located at this path:

~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage

[Yilguk_Seo]

Oh. I see that. I was wrong about the OS. It was Linux(ubuntu). I was using it via MacBook. Sorry about this.

And I found that currently in linux:

ls ~/.config/cursor/ auth.json  prompt_history.json

This is only what I return from ls. And prompt_history.json is nearly empty.

How to setup the Linux: ~/.config/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage

As you answered here Where are cursor chats stored? , how can I initiate the chat storage?

[deanrie]

You don’t need to configure anything, Cursor does everything for you. These project files won’t be of any use to you, except that you can open them and view the data stored in them. As I mentioned above, to access the chats, you need to revert your project to its previous name and location.