Desktop session list empty

“The Code section in the Claude Desktop app shows no sessions at all (empty session list), and has been in this state for several weeks.”

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I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/claude-code/issues/411/file
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Fading. No reports and thumbs-up in the last 7 days and 1 the week before, down from 6 a week at the late-September peak. Not fixed, but a workaround is known.

Desktop session list empty while transcripts remain on disk. Code tab sidebar shows zero sessions though .jsonl files under ~/.claude/projects are intact and claude --resume works.

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Where: Desktop app Code tab
Error text: Couldn't open that session from Claude Code.
Versions: 2.1.136 to 2.9939.2
Platforms: macOS, Windows
How bad: Breaks a normal workflow. Some reports say it used to work.

Part of: Sessions vanish from Desktop sidebar3 bugs

Sessions auto-archived unexpectedly3 people
Desktop session vanishes from sidebar after linked PR merges3 people

Not quite your bug?

Moved folder orphans sessions4 people
Desktop app missing sessions7 people
Projects dumped into Default group14 people

Original reports9, newest first

Oct 28, 2026Desktop Code tab still cannot see or share CLI sessions; old issues closed, problem remains#105759
Oct 1, 2026Desktop app session sidebar stays empty after reinstall, even though transcripts are fully intact#98761
Oct 1, 2026Session discovery: conversations become unreachable, plus ghost and duplicate project entries#98715
Sep 29, 2026Code tab lost session index for a project (20+ sessions missing from sidebar, but .jsonl transcripts intact on disk)#98056
Sep 28, 2026Desktop app session list doesn't include sessions started from the CLI#97904
Sep 28, 2026Desktop app: session list empty for weeks while ~/.claude/projects transcripts remain on disk#97894
Sep 25, 2026Sidebar empty after update to Opus 5.5 (Claude Code Desktop)#97205
Sep 22, 2026App update disconnects session registry from existing ~/.claude/projects transcripts (sessions become unlisted/unresumable, data intact)#96135
Sep 18, 2026El sidebar del proyecto perdió el índice de sesiones (91 chats desaparecidos de la lista, pero los datos siguen intactos en disco)#95283