r/claude • u/blindexhibitionist • Feb 27 '26

Tips Finally Happened

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.

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u/dbvirago Feb 27 '26

One of the things that impressed me about Claude was its ability to use files on my hard drive for its knowledge base backup and let it handle the read/write.

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u/blindexhibitionist Feb 28 '26

Is there certain containerization or security best practice for letting it into your hard drive?

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u/dbvirago Feb 28 '26

You determine which specific folders it can access. And the first few times, it will ask your permission when it runs. I have one directory it can access with files just for those processes and no sensitive data.