Claude Code and old conversation deletion

[Oscar_38]

This GitHub issue is about Claude Code keeping local conversation history and users noticing old items being cleaned up. It is a separate problem from normal Claude chat drift, but it explains why some people feel they need to keep exporting or saving their work.
Disable auto-deletion of past conversations · Issue #4172 · anthropics/claude-code

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/4172

[Glenn]

That is one way of looking at it. Fair enough really.

Appreciate it.

Windows gets slower over time not because of hardware but because of accumulated junk.

[WaveFunction30]

That would make me back up important chats

[WearyCoder]

Claude Code is not the same as claude.ai though

[BigDog26]

Silent cleanup is never ideal

[Freya]

For coding, I would keep notes in repo files