I just updated the Mac mini Codex app. It looked like nothing had changed. It changed, but not in a good way. My project under ChatGPT that I have had since opening the account and projects started, all of them, they are all gone. It looked like nothing had changed. It changed, but not in a good wa…

Exact same issue here. It had me delete caches and stuff, reinstall the app yada yada…still not working.

Good to know it’s not just me. This roll out smells like the old Steve Jobs days at Apple. The day before everyone is excited about an update. They send out the update you lose half of your work.

What, OpenAI has done, is primarily changed the name of Codex App and updated the interface and also imported your ChatGPT, however you still have an option to keep the old icon of Codex and you can still continue to use your old ChatGPT app, which is now being called ChatGPT classic and when you op…

[image] rishi.malhotra: and also imported your ChatGPT I had two apps installed — ChatGPT and Codex. When upgrading Codex, it didn’t import any data from ChatGPT, and I only have Codex’s projects on the list. The only way to access ChatGPT’s projects is its web app.

Oh, I just noticed, the old ChatGPT app is now called ChatGPT Classic: [image]

On your new ChatGPT (Old Codex) app, check on top left corner, you have work option and on dropdown you have coding option. in work windows, 5th option is chat in the sidebar. once you click or hover, you will see your old chatgpt chats

On Windows is no different. Same behavior ChatGPT Classic and ChatGPT (Codex). [image] There is also a ChatGPT Classic, and here you can see the projects still. [image] This link I provided previously also works https://chatgpt.com/projects

Hi all, I found and read this Help Center article (if some of you haven’t read it already), that may help clarify how Chat, Work and Codex are organized in the updated app: ChatGPT Work and Codex Hopefully this article might be of help.

[image] LarisaHaster: Hopefully this article might be of help. It helps a ton! I think that some users are confused on how to navigate projects while having side-to-side ChatGPT Classic and ChatGPT Work. This also because Projects in ChatGPT Classic are different than the projects in ChatGPT…

Where did my ChatGPT projects go?

Codex

DysTopia July 10, 2026, 3:47am 4

have you tried on the web going to https://chatgpt.com/projects ?

Also on the side bar, the chats have three edits, change how the chats are displayed set to by project.

Hope this helps!

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Where did my ChatGPT projects go?

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