Saving files results in "waiting on cursor-retrieval" indefinitely

[Carter_Smith1 (Carter Smith)]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Infinite Loading Issue When Saving Files in Cursor App

Hi everyone, I’m experiencing a persistent issue with the Cursor app. Whenever I save a file, the app gets stuck in an infinite loading state. Here are the error messages I’m receiving: Error Messages: • Saving ‘StudyMessageEdit.tsx’: Getting code actions from ‘TypeScript and JavaScript Language Features’, ‘cursor-retrieval’ (configure). • Saving ‘settings.json’: Getting code actions from ‘JSON Language Features’, ‘cursor-retrieval’ (configure). Has anyone encountered this problem before or…

Same outcome, but seemingly different cause.

No Gitlens.
Go project.
One go.mod file.

Project has no errors. Builds fine, runs fine. This does not happen in vanilla VSC with the exact same extensions/base configuration files.

Prevents me from using Cursor. If continues, will likely result in the company I’m at having to look into different options.

Go Autoformat on/off changes nothing. Additional actions on save also changes nothing.

Also, wtf is this? Constant JS errors in devtools where Cursor is trying to resolve files that

• Have never existed
• In paths that have also never existed
• In languages that have never existed in the project

To be extra safe, tried again, just now, with no extensions (aside from bare minimum Go extensions). Same issue. There also seems to be something wrong with endpoints related to getting team privacy settings. Going to my settings page, it is often taking upwards of 30 seconds for that data to properly load. This is the same on other machines as well.

Steps to Reproduce

Save a file.

Expected Behavior

The file to save and the program to get out of my way.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Tried 2.0 and latest. Happening on both.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

[Colin]

Hey @Carter_Smith1 !

The cursor-retrieval hang plus the phantom files makes me think the project index is corrupted or stuck. Can you try going to Cursor Settings → Indexing & Docs, deleting the index, then resyncing? That usually clears stale paths and stops retrieval from blocking saves.

@Carter_Smith1

Going to my settings page, it is often taking upwards of 30 seconds for that data to properly load. This is the same on other machines as well.

Sounds likely to be a separate issue, but also interested to know if it’s still the case (we had another report around Privacy mode in the forum tonight).

[Carter_Smith1 (Carter Smith)]

Hey, I did do that last time this happened and it didn’t fix. I’ll give it another go now and edit post when sync is done.