Chat Tree lost all my chats

Open 💬 3 comments Opened May 22, 2026 by seanmccrary76

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

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

26.519.22136

What subscription do you have?

Enterprise

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64

What issue are you seeing?

“Project sidebar says No chats for projects whose threads exist and are returned by thread/list with exact cwd, because sidebar groups are built only from the first recent page.”

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Feedback ID: 019e4cd9-502a-7873-ae28-7f3b595d3bb6

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

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3 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 3 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

#23825

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omarpinarecords · 3 months ago

just add the environments and select the existing folders. https://developers.openai.com/codex/app/local-environments.

seanmccrary76 · 3 months ago

Thanks. I tried validating this locally, and I don’t think this is just a missing local-environment/project setup issue.

The existing folders are visible in the Codex sidebar, e.g. Databricks shows as a project, but the sidebar says “No chats.” The underlying history is still present:

The session JSONL files exist under ~/.codex/sessions.
The thread rows exist in ~/.codex/state_5.sqlite.
For Databricks specifically, the real user thread exists:

thread id: 019e282e-3535-7fe0-8fa9-cd50d886c5a9
cwd: C:\Users\sean.mccrary\Databricks
title: “Can you download the git folder structure from https://github.com/databricks/app-templates...”

A direct app-server thread/list call with cwd = C:\Users\sean.mccrary\Databricks returns that thread correctly.

The issue appears to be in the desktop sidebar/project grouping behavior. It seems to build project chat groups only from the first page of recent loaded conversations, rather than querying each saved project folder by cwd. So projects whose chats exist but fall outside that loaded recent window show as “No chats.”

Adding/selecting existing folders may restore project/environment configuration, but it does not explain why a saved project whose thread exists and is returned by exact cwd lookup still shows no chats.

Can you confirm whether the sidebar is expected to query project folders directly, or whether this is a regression in the project grouping/recent-thread pagination logic?