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Conversation history stuck on old messages across multiple chats

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Description

Several chats keep displaying older messages instead of the latest conversation. Fully closing and reopening the app does not fix it.
In SCOLAFLOW V.2, the visible history stops at an old desktop login-layout discussion, although substantial work and newer messages followed.
Read-only diagnostics found this repeated error:

thread history projection for 01a039ab-af20-77d0-872f-800d2cd0d56f
expected ordinal 8608, got 8607

The original transcript still exists and is being updated. However, the history index is stuck at byte offset 391604723, while the transcript is approximately 3.46 GB.

  • Platform: Windows
  • Date observed: 7 September 2026
  • Restarting the app: no improvement
  • Multiple chats affected; the error above was confirmed for SCOLAFLOW V.2
  • No chat data or databases were modified during diagnosis

Please provide a safe way to repair or rebuild the conversation-history index without losing the original transcripts or recent messages.

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Research direction

No repository files, tests, or entry points are identified in the issue. Start by locating the conversation-history projection and index-rebuild code, then reproduce the ordinal mismatch using the reported diagnostics; done means a safe repair or rebuild preserves the original transcripts and newer messages.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
data
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
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