Desktop app sidebar hides existing local Codex sessions after restart/update

What version of Codex CLI is running?

0.146.0

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Plus

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.6-sol, medium reasoning

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.5.0 arm64 arm

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

Apple Terminal.app on macOS

Codex doctor report

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}

What issue are you seeing?

Local Codex sessions disappear from the ChatGPT desktop app project sidebar after restarting or updating the app.

The affected session still exists in ~/.codex/sessions and in ~/.codex/session_index.jsonl. It can be opened successfully using codex resume with its session ID, but it remains missing from the desktop app sidebar.

Project: ai-cookbook-android
Missing thread: Fix sparse ingredient arrays
Session ID: 019fbd5c-4ac1-76e3-8754-9f8b5f944292

Other older project tasks remain visible. This has happened repeatedly, including after application updates and normal restarts.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019fbd5c-4ac1-76e3-8754-9f8b5f944292

What is the expected behavior?

Existing local Codex sessions should remain visible under their original project after restarting or updating the ChatGPT desktop app.

If a session transcript and index entry still exist and the session can be resumed through the CLI, the desktop app should display it in the project sidebar or provide a way to restore its project association.

Additional information

This appears to be a desktop sidebar indexing or project-association bug rather than deleted session data.

The transcript and session index entry both exist. The complete session can be resumed through the CLI. Restarting the desktop application does not restore it to the sidebar.

The issue has occurred more than once after updates or restarts. Diagnostic logs and the affected thread were uploaded through /feedback.

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