# The cursor deleted itself

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/the-cursor-deleted-itself/49162>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [February 8, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/the-cursor-deleted-itself/49162 "2025-02-08T21:25:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Comets9224](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/comets9224/32/25345_2.png) [@Comets9224](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Comets9224)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/the-cursor-deleted-itself/49162/1 "2025-02-08T21:25:05Z")

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the cursor deleted itself.  
when i open the cursor ,i enforce close my windows pc,because i don’t need to save anything in cursor ,so I’m not saved and close my cursor.however,when i restarted my pc,i find cursor also remove from my pc??? that’s why ? now ,i must renew download cursor.

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**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 11:52am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/the-cursor-deleted-itself/49162/2 "2025-02-09T11:52:45Z")

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Hey, it seems this is related to Cursor trying to update. Check out this solution, it might help you:

> [@Cursor removing Itself?](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-removing-itself/3035/113):
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> Here’s what I’m finding is the cause and a solution for now: Short version - Wait about 15 minutes for the background update to finish, delete the bad shortcut, and then launch Cursor from the search bar. Details: After shutting down cursor… Desktop icon is replaced with a white page icon Task manager shows an active background task “Cursor is an ai first coding…” Wait for about 10 minutes Cursor Icon reappears where it was before Wait another few minutes and Task Manager task disappears The…

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**Author:** ![Comets9224](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/comets9224/32/25345_2.png) [@Comets9224](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Comets9224)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 12:13pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/the-cursor-deleted-itself/49162/3 "2025-02-09T12:13:01Z")

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Thank you! I’ve already solved this problem. Reinstalling Cursor, I found all my files and configurations were preserved. Thank you for your patient answer.