Codex app update lost local thread history
Open 💬 2 comments Opened Jun 10, 2026 by YangchenxiWu
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I already submitted in-app feedback. Feedback/session ID:
019eafa9-7bd1-7370-b528-91aba7f70533
After updating Codex app, my previous Codex app thread history disappeared from the sidebar. This is not ChatGPT history.
Current visible local threads only start from 2026-06-04, about 17 threads. My Codex usage is around 390M lifetime tokens and I had many more Codex app conversations before the update.
Same account/workspace. Current version: codex-cli 0.138.0-alpha.7.
Current local store:
- ~/.codex/state_5.sqlite only contains the new 17 threads
- ~/.codex/sessions only contains sessions from 2026-06-04 onward
- session_index.jsonl only has the current/new index
I also found an older Codex thread id in a crash dump:
019e6e80-2278-7dc1-a061-d53c4cd5b2de
Please help recover or reindex the old Codex app local thread history.
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Potentially related to #26236 and #27251. I’m leaving this open for now because my case includes a feedback/session ID and local-store details that may help debugging.
Feedback/session ID:
019eafa9-7bd1-7370-b528-91aba7f70533
In my case, only threads from 2026-06-04 onward are visible after the update, while older Codex app history is missing from the sidebar.