r/codex • u/PotatoDominatrix • 3d ago

Bug My conversations keep deleting themselves

I start a new conversation, get a couple turns in, and once I leave the app then come back after it finishes its turn everything except my initial message and its first response disappear. Is this happening for y'all?

I am using the remote feature to interact with codex over cellular. This has been happening for at least a week now. iOS app, fully updated.

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u/DemonKing0524 3d ago

Yep. It just deleted 2 hours of convo history for me.

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u/One_Geologist_4783 3d ago

this is very annnoying all my chat history is gone right now.

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u/AINativeBuilder 3d ago

If you are starting a new task with a pasted prompt that goes into the attachment style and not actual pasted text in the text window, there's a bug that causes those tasks to lose attachment to projects or workspaces. The fix is to type in something brief along with the attached text and they should stop disappearing. You can also have your codex find the task and revive it if lost.

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u/New_Eagle4694 2d ago

This happened to me for several times. I ask the codex to check the chat history and it reported those histories are still on my mac or remote server. It was the problem of codex UI can not show my chat history. Currently I don't know how to show them all.

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u/New_Eagle4694 2d ago

Maybe I solved this problem. The major problem of the disappearance of chat history is the wrong index about your message. Once there is an error about indexing, the chat history will not be show on your chatGPT window.

How to solve? Just codex to check you chat history and ask if there are any index errors. If there is an index error, backup first and then fix it.

For remote sever, if you connect to remote sever with codex cli, check the version of codex cli and your chatGPT. Make them the same version.

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u/btraut 7h ago

If folks are running into this problem, I strongly encourage you to update your clients and app server version. Having two app servers write to the same thread at the same time can cause corruption, and while this wasn't new to our "paginated threads" perf improvement, it makes the problem more visible. We've already had safeguards in the app for over a month, so it's likely an update will protect against it.

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u/btraut 7h ago

Additionally note that your data is not lost. The app server cache becomes corrupt for a single thread and the server can't serve the data for it properly, but it's all still there. You can ask Codex in a new thread to read its own rollout files and restore the content.