3 people reported

All time, since Sep 27, including 1 thumbs-up on GitHub.

Pre-compaction messages disappear

“In the Claude desktop app's Code tab, once a session has been compacted, I can no longer see anything from before the compaction.”

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Messages before compaction disappear from desktop Code sessions. In the desktop app's Code tab, scrolling up stops at the compaction point; earlier messages remain in older .jsonl files.

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Where
Desktop app Code tab
Versions
2.1.281
Platforms
macOS
How bad
Breaks a normal workflow.

Related: Sessions vanish from Desktop sidebar

Not quite your bug?

  1. Desktop session list empty11 people
  2. Earlier transcript segments discarded7 people
  3. Idle after compaction2 people

Original reports2, newest first

  1. [Desktop/macOS] After compaction: earlier transcript is lost, pre-compact files vanish from the sidebar, and archived sessions can't be filtered#102361
  2. Desktop app: messages from before a compaction disappear from Code sessions#97651

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