{"version":"2.1.293","anchor":"settings-restore-permanent-failures-and-new-outcome-cases","canonical_anchor":"settings-restore-permanent-failures-and-new-outcome-cases","heading":"Settings restore stops retrying failures and reports new outcomes","tier":"internal","area":"Settings Sync","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.293\/e\/settings-restore-permanent-failures-and-new-outcome-cases","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.293","markdown":"### Settings restore stops retrying failures and reports new outcomes\n\nA failed settings restore is now marked as permanent, and restores can end as switched off or settings gone\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear which settings restore or sync feature this belongs to.\n\n**What**\n\nWhen Claude Code fails to apply a settings file to your home directory during a restore, the failure is now marked as permanent rather than one to try again. A restore can also now end in two new ways:\n\n- the restore is switched off\n\n- the settings are gone\n\nA record kept in the cache can also hold extra details.\n\n**Why**\n\nThese settings failures are no longer retried.\n\n- Area: Settings Sync\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}