Claude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out

Claude Code users are reporting that the app is silently deleting conversation transcripts – yours may even already be gone if you don’t know to change a default setting that the platform never bothers to tell users about. Claude Code’s GitHub repo features multiple open issues from the past couple of months, as users of the coding tool are finding their conversation transcripts gone. The problem appears to come down to the cleanupPeriodDays configuration option, which defaults