[BUG] Conversation History disappeared after update.
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Activity 15 comments · opened Dec 2, 2025
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- [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
- [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
- [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code
What's Wrong?
after doing the update to the latest Claude code agent in VS code this morning all of my conversation history with the opened project has disappeared. I used the agent to search and find, and it says that all of my conversations are still stored in the folder just not displaying. I have reload, restarted, etc multiple times still isn't coming back Help!
What Should Happen?
the conversation history should appear in the dropdown inside the Claude code agent window. so that you can recall previous conversations
Error Messages/Logs
Steps to Reproduce
I dont know the answer to this, and I wouldn't suggest it anyway
Claude Model
Not sure / Multiple models
Is this a regression?
Yes, this worked in a previous version
Last Working Version
_No response_
Claude Code Version
2.0.56
Platform
Anthropic API
Operating System
macOS
Terminal/Shell
VS Code integrated terminal
Additional Information
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15 Comments
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same issue. I see the .jsonl files, but its not showing any conversations from the past week. the last conversation the ui shows is from 6 days ago.
update: history shows up when using terminal version, but not the vscode extension ui.
The data is still there at ~/.claude/projects/*/history.jsonl, just not showing in the UI.
Quick diagnostic:
Check if your history still exists
ls -lh ~/.claude/projects/*/history.jsonlIf you see files there, your history isn't lost - just not displaying.
I ran into this constantly and built a VSCode extension that reads the JSONL files directly and maintains a persistent sidebar: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=agsoft.claude-history-viewer
It runs alongside the official extension and just provides the missing persistence layer.
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problem is still there
This is happening to me as well for version 2.0.57 and above. If I downgrade to version 2.0.56 and below the past conversations load again.
I have had this problem too and it sucks! we were in the middle of a great work in phases and now it is all disappeared!
Yesterday to be sure I even exited the REPL with /exit command and restarted, used the /resume command and the conversation was available! Today I restarted my computer and "pouf!" disappeared! All the work done is now good for nothing, I have lost hours of work like this!
I still have this problem too. Downgrading to 2.0.56 worked for me as well.
i'm still seeing this problem as well! Super frustrating and took me a few hours to get the conversation back through local files.
If you're running into session data loss, Mantra maintains its own independent index of your Claude Code sessions. Even when the built-in session persistence fails, Mantra can help you recover and replay past conversations.
It provides a visual timeline where you can rewind to any point, branch into alternate paths, and compare different session outcomes.
All my chat history has gone from the app, too. This happenend after I upgraded the app. And anthropic's ai helper appears to have committed suicide.
Same happening to me. See image below, where the right side shows that I already selected the existing conversation from the right, and it doesn't not even load!
<img width="2498" height="1348" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/23bf3b42-5b53-4e14-81bc-715bdf468035" />
It is so weird that the conversation is stored, but it never loads into the extension.
I've had cases where the conversation would partially load, but the last 10 messages are missing.
any word on this its quite problematic same as above updated claude code natively lost all conversation history the .json mapping them was deleted conversations still there but not to claude for some reason
Is there any way to solve this?
This is killing my workflow
Sessions intact on disk but invisible in the VS Code panel — I've run into this exact pattern too. The extension builds a session index from only the first and last 64 KB of each transcript file; title entries embedded in the middle of longer sessions get silently skipped, and those sessions simply never appear in the sidebar even though the
.jsonlfiles are healthy.I built a tool for this:
recover_vscode_sessions.pyinBasedGPT/claude-code-session-recoveryreads the full transcripts and injects the missing entries into the extension's SQLite cache (state.vscdb). Worth runningdiagnose.pyfrom the same toolkit first: it maps~/.claude/projects/against the extension's index and shows what’s missing before writing anything.Close VS Code fully before running
recover_vscode_sessions.py --apply. The toolkit is Windows-developed, but the file formats are identical on macOS and the scripts work with path adjustments (macOS metadata lives at~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude-code-sessions/).Hope this helps, if my tools are able to help you, would appreciate a ⭐ :)