When I open Cursor, the entire IDE is completely empty; nothing loads, neither the project code nor any of VS Code’s own options. Why is this happening? I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling Cursor, but it still doesn’t work.
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When I open Cursor, the entire IDE is completely empty; nothing loads, neither the project code nor any of VS Code’s own options. Why is this happening? I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling Cursor, but it still doesn’t work.
There’s another thread where users have faced this issue. Some users found that running with --disable-gpu once unblocked them going forwards. Could you give that a try?
I solved the problem by deleting the files in \Roaming\Cursor and then restoring the entire folder from the Recycle Bin, followed by a reinstallation. Is this the correct solution? Did it actually fix the problem completely?
I’ve found the problem. If I open the agent chat as an editor, the IDE cursor freezes. Then, if I close and reopen the IDE, this problem reappears. What’s going on? You need to fix this!
The current chat function with the cursor has many problems. I think it’s because I have two screens – my laptop is connected to an external monitor. When I try to open the previous chat as an editor, it gets stuck in the “opening” state and won’t open the editor. This leads to a series of problems. If I only use one screen, the chat-to-editor function works fine.
I had this issue. What I did was delete the workspace storage inside the .cursor folder on C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Cursor\User, and it worked.
Same issue. Tried to reinstall, then reinstalled an older version, no luck. Thank you for sharing this – checked the C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Cursor\User folder and saw some files labelled corrupted. Deleted the files, still no luck, deleted the folder and restarted, lost my chat history but at least I have it working again. I personally did not restore the folder from the recycle bin.
This bug occurred for me after I clicked “Open Chat as Editor” in the Chat window options. Clicking that showed me the blank window others are reporting, and I’ve had the same issue every time I open Cursor since. I have tried reinstalling both current and previous versions, and all the workarounds I have seen on the forums. Nothing has worked.
However, I was able to open a different project/folder by searching Cursor in the start menu and selecting the folder there (not the one I was originally working in when the bug occurred). So at least in my case, this has something to do with the folder that was open in Cursor at the time. I haven’t yet found a way to get that folder to open in Cursor.
