New threads stuck on loading (spinning grey box)
Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Feb 17, 2026 by chawlaaditya Closed Feb 24, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor)
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What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
26.212.1823 (661)
What subscription do you have?
Plus
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 25.3.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
Old chats are not loading, new threads do not work (any message sent leads to a spinning grey box).
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Try a new chat message or load previous threads.
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
_No response_
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Thanks for the bug report. I'm guessing that there's some corrupted state on your machine. Try this: temporarily rename the
~/.codexdirectory to something else, then restart the app. You'll need to log in again, and all of your threads will be gone, but I want to see if you're now able to create new threads.@etraut-openai Thank you, that did it. I am able to create new threads. I renamed ~/.codex to ~/.codex2 and a new blank ~/.codex directory was created. Any way now to restore the threads?
OK, good to hear. Let's see if it was the thread data or something else that caused the problem. You can find all of the threads in
~/.codex/sesssions. We also recently added a small db that tracks metadata about your sessions (for improved performance of lookups). That's located in the~/.codex/sqlitedirectory. Try copying those two directories from codex2 to codex.Closing because of lack of response.