I thought this was a feature that they tidied up your data
Beware, Claude Code deletes >30 day old transcripts. Anthropic won't fix it
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Re: Beware, Claude Code deletes >30 day old transcripts. Anthropic won't fix it
#22This is clearly shown in the settings/config (or at least was last time I looked), if people are surprised by this I recommend asking claude code what settings you can tweak
Re: Beware, Claude Code deletes >30 day old transcripts. Anthropic won't fix it
#23That Claude can't retain and reference these in the future, SQLite could do this trivially, is wild.
Who said "can't"?
Re: Beware, Claude Code deletes >30 day old transcripts. Anthropic won't fix it
#24"Why this is more than an inconvenience. For paying users who treat their sessions as intellectual property — design reasoning, prompt history, hard-won context — this is silent, unconsented destruction of user-owned data. The transcripts are the user's record of their own thinking and work; deleting them by default, silently, with no recovery, inverts the expected ownership relationship. A 30-day default that quietl…
>if they consider them valuable intellectual property [...]
It's hard to take any of what's written seriously, given that it's all AI generated. Did the user actually lose "valuable intellectual property", or did they tell claude to write as dire of a justification as possible?
Re: Beware, Claude Code deletes >30 day old transcripts. Anthropic won't fix it
#25It's on your computer you can literally just make a crontab to copy them somewhere else.
Or tell claude to do it /s
Re: Beware, Claude Code deletes >30 day old transcripts. Anthropic won't fix it
#26"Evil Anthropic implements rolling log files."
Film at 11.
Re: Beware, Claude Code deletes >30 day old transcripts. Anthropic won't fix it
#27So it's a config setting you can change? What would you expect them to fix, that sounds like a feature?
Well they want the default to change. But yeah, it’s not really a bug.
Re: Beware, Claude Code deletes >30 day old transcripts. Anthropic won't fix it
#28So it's a config setting you can change? What would you expect them to fix, that sounds like a feature?
There's nothing in claude code onboarding that tells you about this config setting. So most people don't discover it until it's bitten them.
Re: Beware, Claude Code deletes >30 day old transcripts. Anthropic won't fix it
#29There are several third party tools which can assist with transparently aggregating and archiving sessions across projects Ccrider is the one I use: https://github.com/neilberkman/ccrider Session backups live outside of ~.claude so are not deleted and can be resumed.
ha ha brilliant name!