Archiving removes all chats from Projects | OpenAI | Page 1

sand isleBOT Feb 2, 2026, 8:52 AM

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Reported by @boreal nacelle

Bug Report: Archiving removes all chats from Projects

`Steps to Reproduce`

Make a project, add chats to it, archive chats. Projects still exist but no chats remain in them.

`Expected Result`

Chats contained in Projects should not be archived with the Your Chats group.

`Actual Result`

Hours of lost project organization.

`Environment`

Windows 10 / Firefox

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boreal nacelle Feb 2, 2026, 8:53 AM

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Sorry for multiple sends, it said something went wrong please try again. So I tried again.

wet trellis Feb 4, 2026, 8:32 PM

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Yeah I archived something and now all my chats are permanently deleted everytime I restart Codex app

verbal harbor Feb 5, 2026, 12:07 AM

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Hallo

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Wie gehts

cunning bough Feb 5, 2026, 3:20 PM

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Normaly should be restorfable to the same project they beloged to before archiving. Unless for some reason the runtime gets corrupted or has been compressed for optimization ( archived threads often get compression or summarizing, not visualy but at code level)

#Archiving removes all chats from Projects