Valuable User Rules just disappeared

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Describe the Bug

Opened my machine today, got into Cursor. After a bit of strange behavior, I noticed all my User Rules have just disappeared.
Those are incredibly valuable to me, and now they’re just gone (and a older one has appeared instead).
Is there any way you can retrieve them for me?

Steps to Reproduce

I have no idea how to reproduce this bug.
I used “Add rule” under User Rules in Cursor Settings.

Expected Behavior

My latest User Rules are supposed to load, and not an old one.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.2.0
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: eb5fa4768da0747b79dc34f0b79ab20dbf582020
Date: 2025-07-01T19:49:10.821Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

2

Hi @Fony thanks for reporting the issue. Its a pre-release and we are collecting those issues to fix.

cc @deanrie is there a way to restore last User Rules?

3

Hey, from which version did you upgrade?

4

Hey @deanrie
How do I know for sure?
I think it was cursor 1.1, or a pretty recent one at least.
If I’m not mistaken I updated the version both yesterday and today.
Seems like all my memories are gone too, though those are not as important to me.

5

Thank you for the report, we’ll investigate this.

6

I don’t know if you resolved this from your side or not yet.
The issue is now resolved anyhow.

The last things I did before I noticed it was resolved was open cursor through the terminal instead of through Alfred (like macOS Spotlight search)

Not sure if this could’ve triggered anything.. The cmd is a symbolic link that points to the same executable as Cursor.app :man_shrugging:

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7

Hey, I just lost all of my Cursor rules. What should I do? Can you guys undo this? I want those rules back.

8

I also just notice that my user rules are gone at Cursor Settings → Rules.
Cursor version 1.2.2

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Update: I tried opening cursor from the terminal and the user rules were correctly loaded.
I am on windows with WSL