Hey Firebase team, Today while using Firebase Studio’s prototyper mode, I noticed that my Gemini history was completely wiped — all my previous builds were gone. Luckily, I didn’t need them anymore, so it wasn’t a big deal this time. Honestly, starting fresh even felt kind of nice. That said, I’m …

[image] It happened again. The VM just stop responding and when I refresh the page, everything on my gemini prototype is empty.

Is this something with network issue and is it recoverable or it is corrupted and gone?

Hi @Victoren_Studios - flagged this for the team to look into.

From a suggestion by @romannurik , can you go into Code View and run the following in the terminal to see if the file with your chat history is there: ls -al ~/.idx/ai/capra-thread.json

Yep - and if that file is missing or empty or such, then indeed it looks like the history was dropped, and we’ll definitely want to investigate why/how that happened.

I have this May 14 00:48 /home/user/.idx/ai/capra-thread.json

When you view that file, are you seeing your prompts appearing?

Unfortunately I already started reusing the gemini and the past history was already unavailable. I’ll try to look for the file first if this thing happens again.

I can see the file but it only shows the history starting today. Everything else (past week-1/2) is gone. Now it thinks I am working on a new app and wants to prototype something new. Hard to get it to understand it needs to work on the app that is in the codebase/project I am in.

I have had the same exact problem. Yesterday i got to a good stopping point (I just got back to that commit) and then I resumed working on more functionality. It started getting really slow at around 9pm PST and I simply left because it was hanging my prototyper in the black screen. This morning …

Firebase Studio: Gemini History Reset Unexpectedly – How to Recover?

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Victoren_Studios May 17, 2025, 9:57am 16

@Tom shared some very useful information here. You can give it a try

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