The app updated this evening lower left button and the chat history all gone
@Gcommand which version did you update from?
This is the version I updated this afternoon
The one before I do not know
Does the history not show when you open a project which had history before?
I’m having the a similar issue after updating (see version below). I can see my history, but if I click on one, it loads forever. Then, if I look at my history again, it’s gone from the history
Version: 1.7.17 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 34881053400013f38e2354f1479c88c9067039a0
Date: 2025-09-29T03:10:26.099Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0
Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?
Cursor IDE
Describe the Bug
This may be related this topic (see my comment) Where did my chat history go? - #7 by Togro but idk
After updating to:
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Version: 1.7.17 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 34881053400013f38e2354f1479c88c9067039a0
Date: 2025-09-29T03:10:26.099Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0
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I can see my chat history, but if I try to open any of them, they stay loading forever and permanently disappear from my history.
Steps to Reproduce
Using Cursor: Attempt Update command, update to:
Version: 1.7.17 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 34881053400013f38e2354f1479c88c9067039a0
Date: 2025-09-29T03:10:26.099Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0
try to use one of your previous chats
Expected Behavior
Ability to open my previous chats
Operating System
MacOS
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Version: 1.7.17 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 34881053400013f38e2354f1479c88c9067039a0
Date: 2025-09-29T03:10:26.099Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0
For AI issues: which model did you use?
All that I’ve used fail
Does this stop you from using Cursor
No - Cursor works, but with this issue
Chat history, especially long threads and those with a lot of terminal usage may cause issues when loading. Overall its recommended not to rely on stored history as main source of info.
Usually i either use Export Chat feature directly or SpecStory extension to automatically export all chats.
But shouldn’t some of the chats load? Why does trying to load them delete them?
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Yes the chats should load.
The issue may occur when older version of history got corrupted. This may not be recoverable then, though you should be able to directly access the SQLite DB file when Cursor is closed.
So that’s an issue because all of my chats appear to have been corrupted after update. I’ve installed SpecStory and logged in but it’s not seeing any chats. Maybe I’m misunderstanding how it works but regardless, I shouldn’t lose all of my chats just because I updated.
Not that I won’t use it going forward, but this is very disruptive in the meantime… Why have million token compatibility if cursor can’t handle it?
In fact all of my chats across all of my workspaces appear to have inaccessible in the IDE (as described above).
~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor/Workspaces is completely empty. Is there someplace else I should be looking?
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Have a look at ~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage folder.
There are 100s of directories in there. Most are less than 1MB, but there are some that are nearly 0.5GB. So if these are indeed all that’s needed to display the chat history, then why can’t I access any of the ones created before the update?
I tried accessing one of said chats and although it disappeared from the history in Cursor after failing to open (loading forever), the number of directories didn’t go down in workspaceStorage
This is happening to me as well. Exact symptoms as described here.
>Not that I won’t use it going forward, but this is very disruptive in the meantime… Why have million token compatibility if cursor can’t handle it?
I agree with these sentiments entirely and my org does not allow us to use 3rd-party extensions.
These are customer paid for tokens and chats. Restoring backups of the Cursor folder entirely did not prove effective. This should be more of a priority. Is there any ETA on when we can expect this to be fixed?
@condor what is the story here? is this going to be fixed?
@Sebastian_Jara and other users are raising the same matter in threads of their own. we would all appreciate having this addressed.
@amanrs can we get an answer on this?
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I think cursor has the responsibility to maintain 2 things,
1 answer quality to the models
2 history and vector DB integrity of user.
If cursor keep bahaving like the FIFA AI preventing goal scoring, I will definitely quit using cursor + update delete user’s chat history and vectors knowledge stored is pretty devastating too, I see it as a hostile unethical way of burning more token for nothing, basically manipulate users work to your own profit in a very unethical way.
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currently on mac, looks like the `~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/globalStorage/state.vscdb` and `~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/globalStorage/state.vscdb.backup` have been dropped or corrupted. I just made an update today (1.7.38) and these two files went from 4.05GB to 3MB lol
I checked the other files within the `~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage/` folder and they don’t seem to have moved much in size.
I’m gonna try to restore the files from before the updates and rollback to earlier version to see if history works again. Hopefully it will get the job done.
Not the first time having trouble getting the chat history back and working. A bit like having breaking changes on patch releases, that’s really annoying and time consuming to recover this.
Hopefully you guys can provide better management on this topic in next releases.