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All time, since Sep 20.

Stale "open in another app" lock

“The “open in another app” message blocks continuing the conversation.”

Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.

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I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/codex/issues/15637/file
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Conversations locked as open in another app after restart. Thread shows "This is open in another app. Close it there to continue here." with no owner to close and Retry offering no recovery.

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File my report
Where
VS Code extension
Error text
This is open in another app.
Versions
0.156.0
Platforms
Linux
How bad
Stops work: a core feature can't be used.

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Original reports2, newest first

  1. [VS Code + CLI] Conversation lock blocks input with no recovery; branch/edit also unavailableOn GitHub#47977
  2. [VS Code][Linux] Restart strands every existing Codex conversation behind stale “open in another app” ownerOn GitHub#46924

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