ALL Task history gone after updated to new version yesterday
Resolved 💬 7 comments Opened Sep 17, 2025 by danieltty Closed Sep 17, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (gpeal, contributor)
responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.
What version of the VS Code extension are you using?
0.4.10
Which IDE are you using?
VS code
What platform is your computer?
MacOS
What steps can reproduce the bug?
I updated the extension yesterday (and codex in CLI too). Today I updated to the latest version.
when I check the task history list, it's all gone. Only the chat task that I opened since yesterday is still there, but all my tasks from before the update yesterday is all GONE. Why is this ? and how to regain the history back?
What is the expected behavior?
Expected to see task history in the list.
What do you see instead?
I see only one task in the history list (the opening one that I am working on), all other previous tasks are gone.
Additional information
_No response_
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Same problem. Windows 11. Codex v0.4.10.
The file are are present in
.codex\sessions\...but the extension is not reading them.
There was a one time format change but feel free to open a new issue if this happens again in the future. Sorry for the disturbance.
is there a way to get them into the extension?
You seem to be saying that you made an unannounced breaking change, deleted everyone's history, and are not going to do anything about it, despite the fact that the files are still there and accessible. Have I understood correctly?
@gpeal please reopen the issue until we are shown a way to recover the sessions back in the extension.
Only if OpenAI amend their code to read the old format, which I really feel they should do.