[BUG] Conversation History disappeared after update.

[roxstar-ai]

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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

No response

[github-actions]

Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

1. VS Code Extension: Past Conversations not loaded after restart #12872
2. [BUG] History Sessions lost in Vscode plugin #9258
3. [Critical Bug] Session history lost after auto-update from 2.0.44 to 2.0.49 #12114

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[ShirazC]

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.

[yashagldit]

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.jsonl
If 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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[HelixX23]

problem is still there

[blackwood821]

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.

[scotch83]

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!