Unarchive Codex Conversations

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Version: 3.3.22 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 38a27120cfc7419a5efa38420665eaeeed1e7b30
Date: 2026-05-07T07:47:13.552Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

I normally work in a window with a bar on the right with Claude code in it, a center bar to view open files, and a right bar with Codex open in it. Lately the latest conversation can be very difficult to re-open but with lots of fiddling I can usually get it back, but today I managed to archive it by accident. And I can’t figure out how to unarchive it and get it back.

On a different screen I did find a selection to show “archived” but that doesn’t seem to show me anything, and it certainly didn’t show anything new in the codex context. Usually old conversations can be viewed by clicking the task history button in the codex bar, but that doesn’t show any archived conversations.

How do I brink the accidentally archived conversations (tasks?) back in the cursor codex context. I have now managed to archive two conversations.

I use codex with a key, not the built in cursor codex limits.

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I never did figure out a way to get the old conversation back, but used AI to find the conversation in cursors sql database, extract the text portions of it and use that to update my project documentation. Far from as neat as the problem should have been, but a solution, never the less.