Missing all AI Chats

I have been using the Cursor environment for a few weeks (very helpful, thanks), and I just now decided to do a bit of source code reorganization on a Windows 11 machine. When I finished and opened Cursor, all my AI Chat History for all projects was gone :frowning:

Note that I did not delete anything, just reorganized local folders because things were getting confusing.

Any ideas?

for me usually ask the ai to make roadmap/tasklist and then paste to txt file. when doin the project give a checklist to the task has done. so when u lost the chatt u can just give the tasklist to ai and it’ll continue ur project

Hey, I think you changed your project’s name or something similar, and because of this, you lost all your chats since they’re linked to each specific project. Try reverting to the previous name, it might help.

Hi Dean,

Thanks for the response.

I did not explicitly make project names, but (was just starting out) simply opened folders of relevance. Wonder if that created a “default” name based on folder path?

Read/skimmed further - e.g.:
a) Export your chats from Cursor to Markdown https://github.com/somogyijanos/cursor-chat-export
b) Chat history folder - How To https://forum.cursor.com/t/chat-history-folder/7653
Sound like hash of something (maybe Workspace name, if such created/saved by user?).

In any case, regardless of whether I attempt to export past chats, will be much more careful moving forward! And if I learn something down the line worth sharing, will do so here.

PS Did try moving one project back to folder/path I thought it had come from (that occurred to me too :-). It appears that either my memory was incorrect re path, or that is insufficient to recover chat, or…

Appreciate your taking the time to respond.

David

I just tried to reproduce this, and it seems to work as expected. I created a folder, opened it in Cursor, entered a request in the chat, then closed Cursor, renamed the folder, opened Cursor again, and my chat conversation was gone. I closed Cursor again, reverted the folder name, opened it in Cursor, and my chat was back.

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Ah, good idea enow — thanks!

Dean,

Thanks much for this.

Now if I can only:

  1. Remember my folder structure from before I cleaned things up. (Multiple little projects — iffy…)
  2. Figure out how to go backwards from existing hashes to their corresponding folder name/path from which they were created. (Just kidding — not about my desire for same, but about technical possibility of such :slight_smile:

Moving forward, I will be much more careful about all this!

Appreciatively,
David

Thanks, it’s very helpful. I have found my history yet.

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