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[FEATURE]: Allow renaming or moving a project folder while persisting history for sessions #25625
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Feature hasn't been suggested before.
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This is a pretty important feature for UX. And also mirrored on other products, like Codex: openai/codex#15347, or GitHub Copilot: microsoft/vscode#313970
Basically, as a user, I oftentimes don't already know where the folder I am working in will be finally staying. Sometimes, I might just create a folder on the Desktop, and then work from there. Later decide that it should live somewhere else. Sometimes, I might also want to do bigger restructuring of existing folders.
Currently, this seems to not keep the chat session history.
As a user, this is unwanted, and can prevent me from moving stuff around. Of course, one can probably somehow later have a script running that will point the existing session files to the new location as a workaround. But this is not nice.
So I hope that there can be a solution for this. For easy renaming/moving: Maybe have a context menu entry or general option for this, that does exactly such things automatically for me? Rename the folder and take care of everything?
For the future, one could also foresee something in addition, like (locally) fingerprinting a folder to easily find it again (maybe also storing some ID inside it), support for "orphaned" sessions, ...
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github-actions commentedon May 3, 2026
This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:
These issues cover the same scenario you describe. You may want to add your use case or +1 there instead of filing a new report.
claell commentedon May 3, 2026
These issues are related (and I wasn't aware of them before). But not duplicates. They cover the same problem. But this issue proposes some more proactive solution (allowing the rename of a folder while persisting the history for its sessions). So making the folder movable, not the sessions, and thus also hopefully not needing to deal with orphaned sessions.
I think though that both of the other issues are pretty sensible as well for different situations.
As a user of the Desktop app (not terminal), I'd also welcome to see these features there as well.
github-actions commentedon Jul 4, 2026
To stay organized issues are automatically closed after 60 days of no activity. If the issue is still relevant please open a new one.