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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