2 people reported

All time, since Sep 30.

Local chat history missing

“After updating Codex Desktop on September 30, 2026, all of my existing local chats disappeared from the UI.”

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Local chat history missing after update despite session files on disk. After updating and restarting Codex Desktop, chats and the Archived section are empty everywhere, while JSONL files remain in ~/.codex/sessions.

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Where
Codex Desktop
Platforms
Windows
How bad
Breaks a normal workflow.

Not quite your bug?

  1. Local projects disappear29 people
  2. Chats missing from projects7 people
  3. Projects and conversations missing2 people

Original reports2, newest first

  1. Codex Desktop: Local chat history disappeared after September 30 update, but session files still existOn GitHub#50010
  2. Codex Desktop: Local chat history disappeared after September 30 update, but session files still existOn the forum#1402119

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