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claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix [BUG] ~20 sessions lost, only 11 survived - 2 months of work I paid for - gone

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What's Wrong?

Needed to dip into older code session conversation to check something, all I see "Session not found on disk".

  • ~20 sessions lost, only 11 survived
  • Session entries still show in the sidebar with titles and dates — but no transcript data behind them
  • No warning, no notification, no opt-in
  • Other users are reporting the same thing (google search)

Same computer, same app (I use desktop app on OSX), only recent session conversations are there, but most are gone. I PAID for this time, conversations, this discovery, why has it been silently deleted?

What Should Happen?

Sessions are stored locally, I should be able to decide if I want to archive or delete anything. It is not ethical to remove what was paid for.

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Steps to Reproduce

Look for old sessions in code, are they there? conversations or empty session?

Claude Model

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Is this a regression?

I don't know

Last Working Version

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Claude Code Version

Claude Code version 2.1.76.

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

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<img width="366" height="155" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5457ea20-1fb7-4ef2-9c41-17188eeeb679" />

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