Export and Import chat currently not retain session info after opening and closing

Type: Feature Request

in Chat sessions we can export it and then import it and if I start working on it I see a new session in chat sidebar but if I close the session and next day I know I have saved the chat in file and open again it only has information until the point it was exported earlier and I need to start again because I have so many sessions and not easy to search and choose from the sessions list. atleast give the user option or popup to decide to have another copy or update the same session to retain information for next time opening.

VS Code version: Code 1.130.0 (1b6a188127eeaf9194f945eb6eb89a657e93c54c, 2026-07-22T14:55:04Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
Modes:
Remote OS version: Linux x64 5.14.0-503.35.1.el9_5.x86_64

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