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desktop-sessions-discovery
Discover, search, and selectively restore Claude desktop app sessions hidden across multiple accountIds. Use when user mentions "missing sessions after account switch", "lost desktop sessions", "where do my old sessions live", or runs multiple Claude accounts on the same machine. Do NOT use for Claude Code CLI session history or resuming work within one session — this only recovers the native desktop app's per-accountId session files; for in-session continuity use handoffs.
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# Claude Desktop Sessions Discovery Toolkit
Claude desktop app (Mac/Windows native) stores sessions per `<accountId>/<orgId>/`. When you switch accounts, old sessions become invisible in UI — they remain on disk but `LocalSessionManager.loadSessions()` only reads the active accountId folder.
Related reports: [#48511](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/48511) was opened
2026-04-15 and is closed as not planned; [#26452](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/26452)
was opened 2026-02-18 and remains open as checked 2026-09-06. These are version-specific user
reports, not proof that the installed build has the same cause or that a fix does not exist.
This skill is a community workaround. Use at your own risk — see Caveats.
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