Desktop Code tab cannot see any local sessions — packaging defect (%40ant folder) plus device-registry failure; CLI reads same files fine
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What's Wrong?
Title: Desktop Code tab cannot see any local sessions — packaging defect (%40ant folder) plus device-registry failure; CLI reads same files fine
Environment: Windows 11 · Claude Desktop manual build (installed 8/21 after MSIX staged-package failure) at %LOCALAPPDATA%\ClaudeManual · Claude Code CLI 2.1.239 · Max plan
Summary:
Desktop Code tab's /resume picker reports "No Claude Code sessions found on this computer" while ~/.claude/projects/ contains 185 transcript files across 7 project folders. The CLI (claude --resume) from the same working directory lists and resumes all of them normally. Sessions affected include ones originally created in the desktop app itself.
Defect 1 — packaging:
The manual build unpacked its native module to a URL-encoded folder name:
app.asar.unpacked\node_modules\%40ant\claude-native\claude-native-binding.node
The app requires @ant/claude-native and fails to load it, producing on every session-list attempt:
Error: @ant/claude-native is required for safe-fs containment but failed to load;
refusing to fall back to a path-based open (CC-2885)
code: ERR_SAFE_FS_ROOT — Root is not an accessible directory: C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Roaming\Claude
Manually renaming %40ant → @ant eliminates CC-2885 (confirmed via main.log before/after).
Defect 2 — device registry:
With safe-fs fixed, the picker still returns zero sessions. main.log shows repeating:
[device-registry] enclave key unavailable — refusing cached row-PK
[device-registry] enclave key unavailable — refusing to resolve row-PK
[remote-tools-device] row PK re-check 3: still no id to present
Not resolved by: full process kill + restart, sign-out/sign-in (fresh oauth token confirmed in log), fresh test project with space-free path containing a valid .jsonl.
Working evidence:
[CCD] /stats (worker) scanned 185/185 transcript files since 2026-03-13 — the stats worker reads all transcripts fine
CLI --resume lists and opens every session
/desktop handoff from CLI successfully opens a session in the desktop app, which then functions normally
Expected: Code tab lists local sessions from ~/.claude/projects/, as CLI does.
Impact: All pre-existing sessions unreachable from the desktop UI; app search doesn't cover code session content, so months of work is undiscoverable without CLI workarounds.
What Should Happen?
<img width="859" height="196" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/384be902-9c96-4a41-8d1f-3834a8e08328" />
<img width="608" height="469" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b89ba609-43e5-42e1-8948-6c74b8e17a69" />
<img width="1207" height="803" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/32104763-ebb1-49d5-a519-2d5621d55f0d" />
Error Messages/Logs
Error: @ant/claude-native is required for safe-fs containment but failed to load;
refusing to fall back to a path-based open (CC-2885)
code: ERR_SAFE_FS_ROOT — Root is not an accessible directory: C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Roaming\Claude
[device-registry] enclave key unavailable — refusing cached row-PK
[device-registry] enclave key unavailable — refusing to resolve row-PK
[remote-tools-device] row PK re-check 3: still no id to presentSteps to Reproduce
I wouldn't wish this on anyone and after 4 hours with Claude can't fix it. So screw reproducing it.
Claude Model
Not sure / Multiple models
Is this a regression?
Yes, this worked in a previous version
Last Working Version
The latest version crashed in the middle of nothing...
Claude Code Version
Latest one
Platform
Anthropic API
Operating System
macOS
Terminal/Shell
Terminal.app (macOS)
Additional Information
I worked with Claude chat for four hours in fable mode making a hundred screenshots. It was CLAUDE CODE HELL!