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Claude Code v2.1.246 ·

The row-based and archive file-sync engines are gone; old records turn sync off

Cloud sessions recorded by the old sync engines stop syncing and tell you to start a new one.

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File SyncArea: what it touches
RemovedKind: in v2.1.246,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
What

A directory whose cloud-session record was written by the older rows or archive sync engines will no longer resume syncing. Attaching to such a session shows a line beginning "File sync is off for this session here" and tells you to start a new cloud session from that directory. This applies to everyone on this build; no switch guards it.

Details
  • The record reader used to return rows, unseeded and archive alongside git; it now returns an "unsupported" result naming the engine, and any engine it does not recognise gets the same treatment. The string archive no longer appears in the bundle.
  • Attach registers a stopped engine with reason engine_unsupported, and the running loop reports the same.
  • Backing that stopped state is a do-nothing engine (activate, messageSent, afterResult, laneChanged, afterConnect, afterDisconnect all empty; send and drain resolve empty) plus a one-shot gate that answers "do not send" once with the reason, so the first message explains itself rather than failing silently.
Evidence

File sync is off for this session here: its local record was written by a sync engine this version of Claude Code does not have. Start a new cloud session from this directory to sync it., sync engine this version of Claude Code does not have

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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