Finally Happened

[u/blindexhibitionist]

So i hadnt seen anything on here posting about this so i wanted to make sure that people knew. I was working on a project trying to simplify a process that im working on as a database with a form that would talk back to it after search. Well we finally got the end and i downloaded the file. well i decided to ask one more question and the whole window disappeared along with the gs code. gone. hours of work gone. i havent been able to get back to where i was and now its pulling teeth to describe where we were etc. in the future ill definitly immediatly download the file and its a good learning lesson but good lord it was so insanely frustrating.

Edit: so I hadn’t turned memory on because I assumed that it automatically was just a feature. Also I got a GitHub account and also learned about cowork and I set up a file on my desktop.

[u/wingman_anytime]

claude -c, or claude —resume, my dude.

[u/blindexhibitionist → u/wingman_anytime]

When I asked where it went, Claude said it was gone

[u/guuidx → u/blindexhibitionist]

The frontend can just crash, but I always can find the conversation in history. Would be weird if it actually deletes a conversation.

[u/Infamous_Research_43 → u/guuidx]

If it’s the VSCode extension version or CLI or anything you install onto another environment, it’s wiped when the VM restarts. Everything is stored locally for those versions, including conversation history (unless you use cloud or web)

[u/guuidx → u/Infamous_Research_43]

Hmm, with cli you can do claude --continue. My laptop crashes all the time bevause memory issue and many panic reboots needed. Never lost anything thanks to continue param. Also, I can't imagine claude code in any way or crash wiping the content. It's stored in ~/.claude and based on your working directory path I guess.

For vs code could be true.

[u/Infamous_Research_43 → u/guuidx]

I only ever used CLI in VMs with ephemeral storage, so it would experience the same issue as if I used the VSCode extension and my VM crashed, for example. I think that might be what OP is experiencing. But yeah, if you're using a version that saves locally on your actual machine or to Anthropic's servers then continue should work. I just mostly work in HuggingFace Spaces or GitHub Codespaces so I don't use Claude locally much :P

[u/guuidx → u/Infamous_Research_43]

Don't you have to authenticate every time? Why code spaces? I do not see myself using them.

Hmm, a custom provision command that will share all claude code stuff trough containers using an oneliner could be cool.

[u/Infamous_Research_43 → u/guuidx]

Yeah the authentication is a bit of a pain but the benefits are pretty big for my use cases. Mostly do it for clean dev environment + custom hardware. You can rent/upgrade your hardware on GitHub Codespaces and HuggingFace Spaces. For example, my go to on HuggingFace is usually the CPU upgrade option, which gives you an 8 vCPU 32GB VM to work with, CPU only, for just $0.03/hr. For just $2.50 an hour you can rent the A100 Large option, which gives you access to a VM with 12 vCPU 142GB RAM 80GB VRAM, and is honestly pretty insane. Tons of other options too on HF and a few on GH, great for the AI training and testing I do. Am also about to run a ML optimizer on a fusion simulator I created and see what kind of super efficient reactor designs it produces, running it on the A100 Large HF Space, doing 4000 different configurations in parallel and running a tournament style evolution script to slide them down the entropy gradient to the most efficient coil configurations possible and whatnot. Just thought I'd share my use case example, and it's pretty neat too :P

Nice idea with the provision command idea btw! It would definitely make things a bit more convenient to be able to pick up chats from desktop or CLI on the VSCode extension or something like that! I think as it stands I'd have to manually copy/paste config and context files and I think the different platforms don't save things the same way or in the same directories or whatever, so idk how compatible that would even be. But I'm sure it could be figured out!