Codx Chat History Bug after updating

Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened May 16, 2026 by muyi19950811 Closed May 16, 2026

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

OpenAI.Codex_26.513.3673.0_x64__2p2nqsd0c76g0

What subscription do you have?

After updating Codex Desktop on Windows, all local historical sessions across multiple projects fail to resume.

What platform is your computer?

_No response_

What issue are you seeing?

This is what the codex ask me to copy.

Observed error:
cannot resume running thread ... with stale path:
requested C:\Users\<user>\.codex\sessions\...\rollout-<id>.jsonl,
active \\?\C:\Users\<user>\.codex\sessions\...\rollout-<id>.jsonl

Environment:

  • Windows Codex Desktop: OpenAI.Codex_26.513.3673.0_x64__2p2nqsd0c76g0
  • New session cli_version: 0.131.0-alpha.9
  • Older affected sessions: 0.130.0-alpha.5

Evidence:

  • rollout .jsonl files exist and parse correctly
  • state_5.sqlite contains mixed path spellings
  • .codex-global-state.json also contains mixed workspace roots
  • reopening the new client rewrites paths back to \\?\...

Expected:
Codex should canonicalize Windows paths before stale-path comparison.
C:\...\file.jsonl and \\?\C:\...\file.jsonl should be treated as the same file.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Just Open the history chat.

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

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