Codex desktop can lose local projects and hide active threads while the database is intact
austinkennethtucker · ghdev · 2026-07-19
Codex desktop loses local projects and hides active threads while the database stays healthy
A GitHub issue against openai/codex reports that on July 18, local projects and active threads repeatedly disappeared from the Codex desktop sidebar.
According to the report:
- the threads were not deleted and remained active in /.codex/state5.sqlite
- rollout files were still present
- the same threads could be resumed from the CLI
- recovery sometimes created a duplicate thread with the same title and working directory
The author believes the bug is a sync failure between the core thread database, the desktop local-thread catalog, and sidebar state.
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