ChatGPT Projects Pitfalls: Inherited Instructions and Unrecoverable Deletions
Ok_Negotiation_2587 · reddit · 2026-11-09
A Reddit user combed OpenAI's help pages and flagged several ChatGPT Projects traps: moved chats inherit the project's instructions and file context, and project instructions override your global custom instructions. On Plus/Pro, questions inside a project "prioritize the project chats and files," so unrelated chats get mixed. Deleting a project deletes every chat in it with no undo, and chats made with a GPT can't be moved into projects at all. His fix: keep projects only for content that truly shares files, group the rest into folders (he also promotes his own AI Toolbox folder product).
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