Sessions vanish from Desktop sidebar

“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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Fading. No reports and thumbs-up in the last 7 days and 3 the week before, down from 8 a week at the late-September peak. Not fixed, but the vendor replied, Oct 22.

3 bugs in this theme

Desktop session list emptyHas a workaround11 people
Sessions auto-archived unexpectedlyNo workaround yet3 people
Desktop session vanishes from sidebar after linked PR mergesNo workaround yet3 people

What's included

Session list empty for weeks or after reinstall while claude --resume still lists the sessions
/desktop handoff fails with "Couldn't open that session from Claude Code."
Session archived right after a linked pull request is merged; unarchive does not stick
Active or pinned sessions archived without user action and hidden, with no visible unarchive control
Remote Control sessions batch-archived server-side days later and hidden from the mobile app

Not included

Old transcripts deleted by the cleanupPeriodDays retention sweep
Sidebar delete removing or keeping transcript files on disk
Messages from before a compaction not shown in the session view

Original reports14, newest first

Oct 28, 2026Desktop Code tab still cannot see or share CLI sessions; old issues closed, problem remains#105759
Oct 25, 2026Desktop: PR auto-archive fires on any of a session's accumulated PRs, archiving it mid-use, and unarchive does not stick#105084
Oct 6, 2026Sessions repeatedly auto-archived during active use, no way to unarchive#100073
Oct 3, 2026[Desktop, Code tab] Pinned sessions get archived on their own and disappear from sidebar (repeats after unarchive)#99291
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 28, 2026Desktop (WSL2): session disappears from sidebar right after its linked PR is merged#97742

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Sep 25, 2026Sidebar empty after update to Opus 5.5 (Claude Code Desktop)#97205
Sep 25, 2026Remote Control sessions batch auto-archived server-side days after disconnect; hidden from mobile with no unarchive or retention setting#97147
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