[BUG] Cowork Projects and Chats disappeared

[ankshvayt]

Preflight Checklist

• I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
• This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
• I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

IndexedDB at 840KB (data loss, not rendering)
vm_bundles at 9.7GB (VMs intact)
claude-code-sessions only contains an empty owner-account UUID folder dated Jan 8
All Downloads/Cowork output preserved

What Should Happen?

I didn't reinstall the app and made no other changes so projects and chats should have persisted

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Cowork
2. Go to Projects
3. No projects (all gone)

Claude Model

None

Is this a regression?

Yes, this worked in a previous version

Last Working Version

No response

Claude Code Version

2.1.128 (Claude Code)

Platform

Other

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Warp

Additional Information

No response

[github-actions]

Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

1. [BUG] Auto-update wiped my Cowork session disk — need my projects restored #43719
2. [BUG] Desktop App 2.1.111 upgrade: Code session index wiped (recoverable via workaround); Cowork history disappeared (cause unclear) #51412
3. [BUG] Cowork: Minor version update permanently deletes chat history and scheduled tasks #38055

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This issue has been automatically closed as a duplicate of #43719.

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