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PSA: Claude Code silently deletes local history older than 30 days

Reddit · fobax · August 29, 2026
Found out the hard way that Claude Code auto-deletes local session transcripts older than 30 days :/ It's the default: cleanupPeriodDays: 30 it runs silently at startup, and deletion is permanent.... no trash, no warning, no server side copy to recover to fix

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