Symlinked paths split sessions

“It means inconsistency in being able to resume previous sessions.”

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I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/claude-code/issues/696/file
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Quiet. No reports in the last two weeks, down from 1 a week at the late-September peak. A workaround is known.

Sessions missing or split when project path is a symlink. Transcripts land in different ~/.claude/projects folders depending on symlinked or physical path, breaking claude --resume and desktop transcripts.

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Where: session storage
Error text: No sessions match
Versions: 2.1.170 to 2.1.299
Platforms: macOS
How bad: Breaks a normal workflow. Some reports say it used to work.

Related: Sessions vanish from Desktop sidebar

Not quite your bug?

Desktop session list empty11 people
Moved folder orphans sessions4 people
Sessions missing from resume picker11 people

Original reports3, newest first

Oct 20, 2026Desktop renders a stale transcript when session cwd is a symlink: one session id maps to two transcript files#103806
Oct 2, 2026Session detection fails when project folder is a symlink#98899
Sep 25, 2026Session transcripts stored with file path instead of session ID on POSIX systems with symlinks#97237