{"version":"2.1.179","anchor":"machineid-is-now-resilient-to-storage-failures","canonical_anchor":"machineid-is-now-resilient-to-storage-failures","heading":"machineID Is Now Resilient to Storage Failures","tier":null,"area":null,"scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.179\/e\/machineid-is-now-resilient-to-storage-failures","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.179","markdown":"### machineID Is Now Resilient to Storage Failures\n\nIf saving the machine ID to disk fails (e.g., permissions issue), Claude now falls back to an in-memory ID for the current session rather than leaving the field empty. A warning is logged: `getOrCreateMachineID: could not persist machineID: <error>`.\n\n**Evidence**\n\nFallback error log (search for `\"getOrCreateMachineID: could not persist machineID:\"`)"}