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Anthropic's Claude Code silently deletes user sessions older than 30 days

Claude Code, a tool developed by Anthropic, automatically deletes user sessions older than 30 days by default. This cleanup process occurs silently during startup without explicit user consent or prompt. Users have expressed frustration over this feature, as it can lead to the loss of important project history and data. AI

IMPACT This silent data deletion policy in Claude Code could lead to user frustration and data loss, potentially impacting developer workflows and trust in the tool.

RANK_REASON User-reported behavior of a specific software product.

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Anthropic's Claude Code silently deletes user sessions older than 30 days

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  1. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/jomi-se ·

    Did you know that, by default, Claude Code silently deletes sessions older than 30 without a prompt for consent? Today I found out

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>`<a href="https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/59248%60">https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/59248`</a></p> <p>Tried to look into an old session for a project I had on hold for a while and /resume showed empty results.</p…