claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix VS Code extension session picker returns 0 sessions despite valid transcripts on disk

Summary

The VS Code extension's session picker (/resume and the "Past Conversations" toolbar button) returns an empty list, even though valid session transcripts exist on disk in the expected location.

Environment

• Extension: anthropic.claude-code v2.1.133 (Windows, x64)
• VS Code on Windows 11
• Working directory is on a mapped Windows network drive (a drive letter mapped to a UNC path)

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a workspace folder on a mapped network drive in VS Code.
2. Open the Claude Code panel.
3. Click "Past Conversations" or type /resume in an active session.

Expected

A list of past sessions for this project.

Actual

Empty picker. No errors shown to the user.

Diagnostic data

• The project's session directory under ~/.claude/projects/<encoded-key>/ exists and contains many valid <uuid>.jsonl transcript files (ranging from ~15 KB to several MB), including transcripts written today.
• Extension log shows the request firing but presumably resolving to 0 results:

[time] Received message from webview: {"type":"list_sessions_request"}
[time] Received message from webview: {"type":"list_remote_sessions"}
[time] Fetched 0 remote sessions

(No error and no follow-up log line for the local request, so it's not crashing — it just returns empty.)

• Per-session metadata in ~/.claude/sessions/<pid>.json correctly records the cwd with a lowercase drive letter, and the project-key encoding on disk matches what would be produced from that cwd.

Suspected cause

Path-encoding mismatch when the cwd is on a mapped Windows network drive. Writes are reaching the right project key, but the picker's lookup may be comparing against a different encoded form (e.g. UNC vs drive-letter, or case differences).

Workaround

The transcript files are intact and can be opened directly as JSONL.