Original Reddit post body / recovery report by the person involved · Source language: English
32 files that vanished from the work area were recovered from commits
A Reddit poster reports restoring 32 files from a work folder created in a temporary area. They raise where long work is stored as the problem.
- Who:
- u/coopernusbaum, developing with Codex across several days
- Scope:
- One post on r/codex. The recovered items are 32 tracked files
- Source published:
- Post date unconfirmed
- Period observed:
- Time of occurrence not stated / work across several days
- Editorial check:
- 2026-10-23
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What was confirmed
- The poster writes that they restored all 32 tracked files from the committed branch.
- They state clearly that no loss of uncommitted work was found.
- They propose a permanent storage location, intermediate commits or diff saving, and responsibility for managing the work area.
Who, and in what situation
A report that a Git worktree the AI created was in the Mac's temporary area, and they noticed later that tracked files had disappeared.
What they needed
Keeping deliverables and uncommitted changes without loss even while the AI has paused work.
What they tried
They restored the vanished files from Git history. As prevention, they proposed making the work area and the saving steps explicit.
What this source lets you read
You need to track not just the AI's memory or summary but where the actual deliverables are kept and their saved state.
What to check next
The day after the AI stopped, from where can work resume?
Limits of this source
- One report under a handle; occupation and affiliation are unconfirmed.
- The explanation that cleanup of the temporary area was the cause is the poster's own finding and has not been independently verified.
- The absolute dates of posting and occurrence are unconfirmed. We do not fill in dates from the source's relative display.
Read the primary source
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Codex put active worktrees in macOS temp. When macOS auto-cleaned them, thousands of lines of code were deleted. (opens in new tab) ↗
u/coopernusbaum/r/codex / Post date unconfirmed
The source shows "2mo ago". This is a manual observation after reading the body, and it is not counted in automatic collection results that require a date.