Problem with continuing to use chat

Milenko_Stojkovic · March 18, 2026, 2:07pm

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

I haven’t worked on this project for a couple of weeks. The other chats for this project are working normally. I wanted to continue working in a chat where I had previously addressed a specific issue. I received a message that:
Connection failed. Please try again, or contact support if the issue persists.

The strange thing is that I have all the previous communication I had in that chat saved.

Steps to Reproduce

I wanted to continue working in a chat where I had previously addressed a specific issue. I received a message that:
Connection failed. Please try again, or contact support if the issue persists.

The strange thing is that I have all the previous communication I had in that chat saved.

Expected Behavior

I expected the chat to continue without any problems. That didn’t happen.

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 2.6.13 (system setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 60faf7b51077ed1df1db718157bbfed740d2e160
Date: 2026-03-06T06:17:49.499Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.6.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

For AI issues: which model did you use?

The models included are:
Composer 1.5
GPT-5.3 Codex
GPT-5.4
Sonnet 4.6
Opus 4.6

For AI issues: add Request ID with privacy disabled

Request ID: 05429b6a-e873-4215-af6b-58f926623c54
Image selected in conversation was not found on disk: c:\Users\Asus\AppData\Roaming\Cursor\User\workspaceStorage\images\capture-2fdd1e33-fda5-409c-b046-8b875359f191.png
Error: Image selected in conversation was not found on disk: c:\Users\Asus\AppData\Roaming\Cursor\User\workspaceStorage\images\capture-2fdd1e33-fda5-409c-b046-8b875359f191.png
at bey (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Program%20Files/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:34286:12955)
at async vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Program%20Files/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:34286:14295
at async vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Program%20Files/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:46860:284
at async Promise.all (index 0)
at async F3u._gatherImageSelections (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Program%20Files/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:46860:242)
at async Promise.all (index 2)
at async F3u.buildComposerSelectedContext (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Program%20Files/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:46865:2303)
at async F3u.streamFromAgentBackend (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Program%20Files/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:46865:5498)
at async F3u.getAgentStreamResponse (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Program%20Files/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:46865:13663)
at async bMe.submitChatMaybeAbortCurrent (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Program%20Files/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:34308:17597)
at async Ea (vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Program%20Files/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:45790:4826)

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Stanislav_Kostomakha · March 18, 2026, 3:37pm

LOL, right now i have the same issue with approximately same timing: about 2 weeks ago switched to another project, upgraded cursor in meantime and now back to previous project but all my findings and final implementation plan created with Cursor are lost and i’m back to point zero

What i did: i’ve seached all files in cursor settings by keyword ( in my case ticket number ) and found two sets of files like:

%APPDATA%\Cursor\User\globalStorage\state.vscdb[.backup]
%APPDATA%\Cursor\User\workspaceStorage...\state.vscdb[.backup]

These files are sqlite3 database, so i copied them to temporal location in same workspace and tasked Cursor to extract what we can have missed. At the time of writing it is still extracting data. When finished i’m going to ask it to analyse previous work and build new Cursor plan (it seems not recovered).

Suspecting in my cause chats were lost because of upgrading Cursor, i didn’t touch anything else this time.

Cheers,

Stas

deanrie · March 18, 2026, 4:30pm

Hey, this is a known bug. The error in the stack trace says it directly:

Image selected in conversation was not found on disk: c:\Users\Asus\AppData\Roaming\Cursor\User\workspaceStorage\images\capture-2fdd1e33-fda5-409c-b046-8b875359f191.png

If an image was attached in a chat and then the file got deleted or moved on disk, Cursor can crash when trying to resume that chat. The “Connection failed” message is misleading here. The issue is actually local.

Workaround: start a new chat in the same project. Sadly, you can’t continue that exact old chat if the attached image is missing right now.

The team is aware of this bug. There’s no exact ETA yet, but your report helps with prioritization.

@Stanislav_Kostomakha your case might be different. If the chats are completely gone, not just showing “Connection failed”, it’s more likely related to an update, not a deleted image. Can you confirm if the chats disappeared from the history list, or they’re still visible but won’t open?

Stanislav_Kostomakha · March 18, 2026, 5:26pm

Hi Dean,

Sorry, it was mistake on my side - i found that chat in history, so no problem with it