Lost all chats from last 9 months by renaming project?
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Jul 6, 2026 by jcs180 Closed Jul 6, 2026
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What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
Version 26.623.101652 • Released Jul 3, 2026
What subscription do you have?
Pro 20x
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 25.1.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
Renaming project loses all chats since 9 months ago??
- I clicked 'rename project' and renamed it
- clicked again and set it to blank (default)
- now I can't find chats since 9 months ago, and they're not archived
Has anyone seen this, or got any ideas how to fix?
Quitting and restarting does nothing.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Feedback ID: no-active-thread-019f3760-65b1-72c3-98b9-20aa7dfc6ad4
What is the expected behavior?
To not lose all chats, and/or to have them visible.
Additional information
Updating and closing/opening didn't neither does renaming.
2 Comments
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Closing because I managed to figure it out. It was not only the renaming in Codex that had caused an issue, I forgot I also renamed by parent directory. Codex created a symlink from the old path to the new one, I restarted Codex, and chats seem to show up now.