Anyone has had this problem? After the issues yesterday my environment kept getting stuck in the prototype view. So I did a " Rebuild Environment" command as suggested in the help. Now I cannot see any of the previous chat in prototype (or anywhere). Moreover, gemini now thinks this is a new pro…

I can see the json 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.

[image] Firebase Studio: Gemini History Reset Unexpectedly – How to Recover? ls -al ~/.idx/ai/capra-thread.json So, after following that thread I was able to find a bunch of what looks like backed up files for capra-thread.json. so I renamed the current one old-capra-thread.json and replaced …

Ah today, the threads dir is code view AI chat threads, and capra-thread is the Prototyper thread, so it’s not really a backup. But we definitely need to get to the bottom of what happened to your Prototyper thread :-/

Yes, I found out the hard way. Doing that “trick” snags the prototyper back to the black screen of hell :slight_smile: - it would be great to figure out what happened, ideally how to recover, and ultimately how one can move forward continuing development with the prototyper cooperating.

I’ve had this issue a couple of times now. All I did was just keep instructing the AI to fix what was needed, and that seemed to work. The only downside is that I’m missing the history to restore from if I ever need it, and I’ve had to rebuild some pages again because of that—no way to go back and f…

Ya, I just created a new branch and then I created a new environment from that branch. But the prototype tool is non existent that way. I guess the way forward is to keep coding the way it works almost anywhere else. But I was really digging the whole start to finish on prototype where I barely ha…

I had the same issue, somehow got wiped. I got it to work again by creating a new blank project (told prototyper to create a blank web app) and manually added all the files from the wiped project

Hassan, I am curious about this. When you say “manually added all the files” do you mean you copy pasted or did you use github or some way of uploading the files ,etc. Reason I ask is my project was starting to to become complex and manually doing what you suggest could be a real pain for me. But …

Lost all my chat/progress in the prototype chat with Gemini

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romannurik May 14, 2025, 5:54pm 2

Hey there! We’re trying to reproduce the issue on our end - there’s a similar thread with a troubleshooting step here - would you mind trying that?

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Lost all my chat/progress in the prototype chat with Gemini

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