Unable to Open History Chats – Loading Fails After a Few Seconds

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:white_check_mark: I’ve checked the forum and didn’t find a similar issue reported.

:lady_beetle: Bug Description
I’m experiencing an issue where I can’t open my history chats. When I click to open a past chat, it shows a loading screen for about 3 seconds and then fails to display anything.

:counterclockwise_arrows_button: Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open Cursor
  2. Try to access a previous chat from the history
  3. Observe the chat attempts to load but fails after a few seconds

:camera: Attachments

:laptop: System Info

  • Cursor Version: 1.0.0
  • VSCode Version: 1.96.2
  • Commit: 53b99ce608cba35127ae3a050c1738a959750860
  • Date: 2025-06-04T19:21:22.523Z
  • Electron: 34.5.1
  • Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
  • Node.js: 20.19.0
  • V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
  • OS: macOS (Darwin arm64 23.5.0)

:prohibited: Impact
Yes, this issue prevents me from accessing any previous conversations, which affects my ability to continue or refer back to earlier work.

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I have the exact same issue

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Hey, this issue is usually related to a large chat history in your project. To solve the problem, try manually deleting most of the history, possibly the oldest chats. You can also try renaming or moving the project. This will help you quickly clear the history.

Additionally, you can delete the history by navigating to this path and sorting the folders by modification date. Choose the one that was used recently, you can delete it or save a backup just in case:

Windows: %APPDATA%\Cursor\User\workspaceStorage
macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage
Linux: ~/.config/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage

If your history is important to you, you can try exporting it using this extension: