Describe the Bug
While using Cursor on Windows connected to WSL, I went to Cursor Settings → Indexing & Docs → Ignore Files in .cursorignore and clicked on “View included files”. Cursor tried to open \home\myusername\.cursor-server\data\User\workspaceStorage\somehexadecimalvalue\anysphere.cursor-retrieval\embeddable_files.txt and failed. Note the Windows-style backslashes.
The file /home/myusername/.cursor-server/data/User/workspaceStorage/somehexadecimalvalue/anysphere.cursor-retrieval/embeddable_files.txt (using forward slashes) exists and I can open it manually.
Steps to Reproduce
- Open Cursor on a Windows system
- Connect Cursor to WSL
- Open a folder in WSL
- Allow Cursor to index the folder contents
- Open Cursor Settings → Indexing & Docs
- Click “View included files” under “Ignore Files in .cursorignore”
- Cursor says “The editor could not be opened because the file was not found.”
Expected Behavior
When Cursor is connected to WSL, the backslashes in the path to embeddable_files.txt should be replaced by forward slashes.
Operating System
Windows 10/11
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Version: 1.2.4 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: a8e95743c5268be73767c46944a71f4465d05c90
Date: 2025-07-10T17:09:01.383Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631
Does this stop you from using Cursor
No - Cursor works, but with this issue