Claude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out
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Got important chats older than 30 days? You'd better be sure the transcripts still exist
Claude Code users are reporting that the app is silently deleting conversation transcripts – yours may even already be gone if you don’t know to change a default setting that the platform never bothers to tell users about.
Claude Code’s GitHub repo features multiple open issues from the past couple of months, as users of the coding tool are finding their conversation transcripts gone. The problem appears to come down to the cleanupPeriodDays configuration option, which defaults to 30 days and runs every time Claude Code starts up, wiping out any .jsonl file it finds that isn’t fresh enough.
Anthropic suggested the blame lies with users for not checking the documentation, telling The Register that the 30-day erasure policy has been there since Claude's launch as a security measure, and is documented...
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