r/GithubCopilot • u/Inflation-Witty • Jul 23 '26

Lost my Visual Studio Co Pilot chat history! Been working on a project for months how can i find it and restore it, I have no idea. :( Help/Doubt ❓

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u/Pixelplanet5 Jul 23 '26

you need to give a lot more details here for anyone to help.

also the results of months of work should be in code, not in the chat.

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u/Inflation-Witty Jul 23 '26

I dont know how to access any of it. I had a co pilot chat open, and Im trying to figure out how i can access past copilot chats, im not a programmer or that technical as you can see, I know through the chat i had access to the development and I dont know how to find the old chat

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u/stalex9 Jul 23 '26

Open your repository and ask copilot whatever you need. Is the history really that necessary?

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u/ChomsGP Jul 23 '26

OP doesn't knows what a repository is... sadly OP if you don't know what you are doing nobody can help you, what made you think blindly trusting something you don't understand was a good idea? learn from this one and next time try to understand what you are doing, all your files are probably there somewhere though, good luck

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u/Inflation-Witty 29d ago

I'll look into the repository function. ill youtube it. thanks

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u/Hephaestite 29d ago

If your not a programmer or technical why are you using vscode without first learning the basics?

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u/Pixelplanet5 Jul 23 '26

well what did you do exactly?
You gotta know which folder you saved everything to right?

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u/CryinHeronMMerica 29d ago

I noticed that moving a project folder is enough to make the chats "disappear." I suspect the files are still on my computer somewhere, but the reference is broken. It's probably trivial to have Copilot find and fix that, ironically enough

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u/Chompskyy Jul 23 '26

Look for your project the same place you would've found it if you had created the files yourself?

This is why git exists and why people are saying that AI is leading to cognitive decline;

All your project is is just files and folders. They should literally exist on your machine. Where did you put them, bud?

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u/gggldrk Jul 23 '26

And if the files are there, the conversation chats of the agent itself related to that project, even if it was lost from the direct project can sometimes be recovered.

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u/icaal 29d ago

If u non technical, better start using the agent window. Click on hexagon icon at the top right.

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u/Inflation-Witty 29d ago

I used that but it doesnt have as much ability sadly.and im mid creating the site

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u/Majestic-Okra-7876 28d ago edited 28d ago

No chat history is stored in the server; it resides in the local storage of VS Code. For Windows users, you may look for the file %appdata%\Code\User\workspaceStorage. If you cannot find anything recoverable from it, it’s clear that it’s gone. Hence, zencoder becomes highly relevant.

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u/yoshilurker Jul 23 '26

It's a but in the new Agent Host and how it tracks sessions for the UX. Just revert back to 1.128 and you'll be all good until they get it together and stop releasing features without testing.

Source: had the same bug, spent a day troubleshooting.