I cannot open my chats from the History after upgrading from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2!!
This is really bad… It just gets “Loading Chat” and then the chat is not there, but instead a tab which says “1 Tab”?!
Steps to Reproduce
Open Cursor IDE, select a previous chat.
Expected Behavior
Chat opens with all history in the chat.
Operating System
Linux
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Hey, this issue is usually related to a large chat history in your project. To resolve the issue, try manually deleting most of the history, possibly the oldest chats.
Hey! OK… remember I had to do this once before, and I really didn’t want to do it then, and now is no different. Why can’t there be unlimited history?! It should only be limited by disk-space.
While we’re at it, I can give some more feed back of what I have seen
When the tool executes a command in the shell, like when it compiles for me, sometimes the actual printout of the compilation is not there, and I cannot click the window to open it.
I really hate when I copy a section of a code-file and paste it into the chat you automatically creates a link-tab above the text I’m writing. This is very confusing when i give several examples and text between. There should be a way to disable this (maybe there already is?).
When I try to update Cursor from the Cursor IDE, it starts to download it, but then it cannot install it, so I’m left with a file that has the same name as the current version I’m using (with another extension). So, I cannot use that feature and need to go to your webpage and download it.
Now that you changed the payment model so that ppl pays per token. When running agent-mode it should always be visible how many token it sent each time it does a request or tool call, so that you can monitor the cost, and if it seem to send huge amount of tokens from a like that I included. Otherwise I just go on chatting without realizing that a lot of tokens are used.
When in a chat, I often wants to go back far in the chat. Why not let me just scroll all the way to the start of the chat?! Often I need to copy stuff from the very first message, to refresh his memory, because he (Claude-4-sonnet) is really forgetful and can never keep all info in his mind. Often it messes up everything because he does things I explicitly told him not to.
It is really tedious to keep clicking the “Load previous messages” hundreds of times.
I would like some way of starting a new chat, but having a super-long previous chat as input, so I don’t have to tell him everything I struggled with in that previous chat.
Full export/import of conversations, so that I can load a chat from one computer to another computer (i.e work-computer, home-computer).
Possibility to share chat-history between work- and home-computer. From home I’m using ssh-plugin to share the code-base on the work-computer, but the chat-history is not shared.
Keep up the good work! Please let me know how I can solve my problem without deleting all my history.
This is because chat history is stored in a database that has limited capacity. Cursor is not the best place to store chats. If you need to save chat history, you can export it using this extension:
OK, I will try it out. But I also tried to delete a lot of chats from the history, and it still cannot open any of the ones left. Are you saying that all these chats are lost/destroyed?!
Unfortunately, it’s difficult to say at the moment. Please use an extension to save your chat history. You can also attach it to the context so the agent is aware of your previous work.
I installed SpecStory, but when doing “Save AI Chat History” I can only select the chat I created yesterday, after I wrote here that I couldn’t open any previous chats. This chat is also the only one I can open in the Cursor Chat History.
I am also facing the same issue, unable to open the chat history, and I am not willing to install these 3rd party software for chat backup, and I even checked my /.config/Cursor/User all the files are there still i am getting this issue?
