I recently reset/reinstalled Claude Desktop on Windows. After signing back in, my normal Claude chat history came back, but all of my Claude Code sessions disappeared from the Desktop sidebar. What’s confusing is that the sessions don’t appear to be completely gone. In the Claude Code CLI, running: claude --resume still shows my previous sessions, and I can successfully reopen them. The Claude Code documentation states that sessions are stored locally as JSONL transcript files under ~/.claude/projects/, and that claude --resume uses those saved transcripts to restore sessions. On my machine, I still have: C:\Users<Username>.claude including: .claude\projects .claude\sessions history.jsonl Questions: 1.) Is it expected that resetting/reinstalling Claude Desktop clears the Claude Code sidebar history? 2.) If claude --resume can still find the sessions, why doesn’t Desktop show them? 3.) Are the Desktop sidebar sessions and the CLI session transcripts indexed separately? 4.) Has anyone successfully rebuilt or restored the Desktop session list from existing .claude/projects/*.jsonl files? 5.) Is this a known issue with the Windows Store/MSIX version of Claude Desktop? The session data still exists, but Desktop lost track of it after the reset 🥲🥲. submitted by /u/ZathuraIsReal
Originally posted by u/ZathuraIsReal on r/ClaudeCode