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Where did my ChatGPT projects go?

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MandyRuckus

July 9, 2026, 11:00pm

I just updated the Mac mini Codex app. It looked like nothing had changed. It changed, but not in a good way. My project under ChatGPT that I have had since opening the account and projects started, all of them, they are all gone.

It looked like nothing had changed. It changed, but not in a good way. My project under ChatGPT that I have had since opening the account and projects started, all of them, they are all gone.

I opened up the Web app in chrome I found my project and chats there. I immediately went to back up my chat history. I asked the software what happened? It tells me that many people are reporting the same bug. It explains why I got a message saying that the backup will be ready in five days to a week. This has to be many of us. If anyone knows what is going on, it would help me. Thanks.

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Phillip_Schwarzmann

July 10, 2026, 2:46am

Exact same issue here.

It had me delete caches and stuff, reinstall the app yada yada…still not working.

MandyRuckus

July 10, 2026, 3:38am

Good to know it’s not just me. This roll out smells like the old Steve Jobs days at Apple. The day before everyone is excited about an update. They send out the update you lose half of your work.

DysTopia

July 10, 2026, 3:47am

have you tried on the web going to https://chatgpt.com/projects ?

Also on the side bar, the chats have three edits, change how the chats are displayed set to by project.

Hope this helps!

rishi.malhotra

July 10, 2026, 9:32am

What, OpenAI has done, is primarily changed the name of Codex App and updated the interface and also imported your ChatGPT, however you still have an option to keep the old icon of Codex and you can still continue to use your old ChatGPT app, which is now being called ChatGPT classic and when you open in browser, it is same thing.

But if you have deleted this old app without checking the new app, which i did.(by the way, now, there is no option to download the old app in official website), then you are in for surprise, because, In this new app, they have imported your chats only, not the projects that you created in Old App.

You will only see the project folders which you created in Codex, if you use it previously. so merger is not fully complete yet and i am not sure, whether they will merge it or not or if they merge, what are timeline.

chrzanowski

July 10, 2026, 9:40am

rishi.malhotra:

and also imported your ChatGPT

I had two apps installed — ChatGPT and Codex. When upgrading Codex, it didn’t import any data from ChatGPT, and I only have Codex’s projects on the list.

The only way to access ChatGPT’s projects is its web app.

chrzanowski

July 10, 2026, 9:43am

Oh, I just noticed, the old ChatGPT app is now called ChatGPT Classic:

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rishi.malhotra

July 10, 2026, 9:45am

On your new ChatGPT (Old Codex) app, check on top left corner, you have work option and on dropdown you have coding option. in work windows, 5th option is chat in the sidebar. once you click or hover, you will see your old chatgpt chats

DysTopia

July 10, 2026, 9:54am

On Windows is no different. Same behavior ChatGPT Classic and ChatGPT (Codex).

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There is also a ChatGPT Classic, and here you can see the projects still.

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This link I provided previously also works

https://chatgpt.com/projects

LarisaHaster

July 10, 2026, 9:57am

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Hi all,

I found and read this Help Center article (if some of you haven’t read it already), that may help clarify how Chat, Work and Codex are organized in the updated app:

⁠ChatGPT Work and Codex

Hopefully this article might be of help.

DysTopia

July 10, 2026, 10:27am

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LarisaHaster:

Hopefully this article might be of help.

It helps a ton!

I think that some users are confused on how to navigate projects while having side-to-side ChatGPT Classic and ChatGPT Work. This also because Projects in ChatGPT Classic are different than the projects in ChatGPT (Work).

Regarding the projects on classic:

On the web there used to be a dedicated UI element with link to Projects. But the link is currently not there and if the chat history is seen as one list, then users have it hard to find the projects they are working on.

It seems to be the case for Web only. On the Windows and macOS App don’t see any changes.

The three dots to the right side of the chats helps find the projects again.

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